"The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen."
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"It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free."
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"When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy."
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"The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you."
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"I trim my opponents to fit my arrows."
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"The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
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"I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else."
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"Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too."
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"Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review."
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"I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful."
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"Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal."
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"Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought."
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"I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit."
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"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother."
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"Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods."
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"The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit."
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"My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first"
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"Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments."
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"I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box."
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"A good style fits like a good costume."
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