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• There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, About Yourself, Tragic

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Color, Shadow

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.241, e-artnow

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• I bear a charmed life.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Bears

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.271

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• When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Style, Natural

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• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  Lorna Luft

  Magic, Hollywood, Evening

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Laughing, Make Me Laugh, Charming

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• I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Mars, Earth, Clue

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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, Talking

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Flirting, Player

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I've lived a charmed life. I've been very lucky. God has been very kind to me.

  Margaret Gorman

  Lucky, Kind, Charmed Life

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• How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Language

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.367, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Passion, Home

  "Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

  G. W. Smith, John Stuart Mill (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments”, p.262, Psychology Press

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• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  Maeve Binchy

  Believe, Thinking, Healthy

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• It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Positivity, Forever, May

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.86, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I was living a charmed life.

  Edward Snowden

  Charmed Life

  "Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". Interview with Geoff Mulgan, Breffni O'Connor, Luciano Floridi and Dame Vivienne Westwood, www.nesta.org.uk. March 2015.

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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• It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Morning, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

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• [Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Manners, Said, Please

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows." "Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim." "Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nephilim, Owners, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

  Shannon Hale

  Wise, Witty, Kings

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• Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Arrogant, Fool

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.62, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Archer, Intelligent

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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• He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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