"We must every one be a man of his own fancy."
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"O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet"
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"If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make."
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"All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy."
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"Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!"
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"Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth."
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"Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches."
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"Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account."
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"The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics."
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"All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness."
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"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions"
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"I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw."
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"I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else."
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"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities."
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"The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook."
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"Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while."
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"Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better."
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"So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough."
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"I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now."
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"Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies."
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