"It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried."
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"The fancies of wine are authentic events."
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"Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune."
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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names."
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"All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?"
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"The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate."
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"If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned."
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"I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present."
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"A little of what you fancy does you good."
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"The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them."
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"I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery."
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"False fancy brings real misery."
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"I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to."
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"She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."
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"I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience."
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"Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves."
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"Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe."
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"That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature."
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"While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional."
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"In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man."
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