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• The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Writing, May

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.525, Penguin UK

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

  Christina Stead

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Grief, Color

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Practice, Long, Simplicity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Tails, Chosen

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• 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

  Michael Patrick King

  Running, Sex, New York

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• They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Machines, Wonderful

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• Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

  Julia Child

  Art, Mean, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.15, Knopf

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

  David Ogilvy

  Friday, Creativity

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• I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Trifling

  "Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

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• Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

  Seneca the Younger

  People, Prison, Innocent

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• He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Past, Gone

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, William Ernest Henley (1918). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Stupid, Kids

  "Kobe: Europe's players more skillful" by Arash Markazi, www.espn.com. January 3, 2015.

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• Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Order, Ink, Paper

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Secret Agent”, p.46, Penguin

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• She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of late fell away. The wood that had been so gloomy was a place of sunlight and song; had red roses sprung up around me I had felt no wonder. She came softly and slowly with bent head and hanging arms, not knowing that I was near. I went not to meet her - it was my fancy to have her come to me still - but when she raised her eyes and saw me I fell upon my knees.

  Mary Johnston

  Love, Song, Eye

  Mary Johnston (1857). “To Have and to Hold”, p.339, Library of Alexandria

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• Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

  Robert Burns

  Passion, Light, Heaven

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.141

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• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Real, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Kindness, Sneakers

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Cutting, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Warren ‘Shocked’ At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The position does not make you a leader. The title, the promotion, the fancy corner office do not make you a leader. No, it is relationships with people that are the foundation, the very heart of leadership. Have you ever worked for someone you didn't like? It's difficult, isn't it? On the other hand, the leader you will follow anywhere and everywhere is one you know cares about you, and values you. This person has your best interests at heart. It is the leader who comes alongside to help you improve and grow.

  John C. Maxwell

  Heart, Hands, Office

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Sep 11, 2014

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• What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

  John Guare

  Hate, Real, Drama

  "John Guare: 'Writing is a blood sport'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2010.

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