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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Brain, Looks, Next

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• Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Character, Reality

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• People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Age, Twenties

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• No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

  Arthur Keith

  Errors, Form, Latent

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• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Men, Relaxation, Use

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• Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Judging, Excellence, Needs

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book III, Preface, Sec. 1, c. 15 BC.

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Alive, Journalism

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• When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Religious, Home, World

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• The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Real, United States

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• Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Would Be, Dean, Said

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• I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

  Madame Roland

  Sadness, Melancholy

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• Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

  Walter Scott

  Mystery, Womanhood

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• Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Pain, Writing, Giving

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• The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Brave, Good Man

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• A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

  James Joyce

  Pins, Loses

  1922 Ulysses.

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• Charm never made a rooster.

  Dean Acheson

  Roosters, Made

  Of poorly-organized attempts to maintain peace by good intentions. Quoted in James B Reston Deadline (1991).

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Genius, Might

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• The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.

  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

  Art, Eye, Exercise

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• Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Fiction, Fables

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.161

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• Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

  Tyne O'Connell

  Men, Thinking, Charming

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• Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

  Archimedes

  Beautiful, Discovery, Broken

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• It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Hate, Love Or Hate

  "Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy".

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• I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

  Francois Rabelais

  Prayer, Believe, Gun

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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