"I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest."
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"Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded."
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"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
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"Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are."
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"So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical."
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"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous."
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"We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide."
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"And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you."
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"The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods."
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"Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study."
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"Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness."
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"I didn't fancy any of my teachers."
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"If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit."
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"Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything."
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"If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best."
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"She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing."
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"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial."
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"The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition."
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"Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste."
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