"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
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"Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden."
"Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand."
"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets."
"Do not try to seem wise to others."
"That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be."
"Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe."
"The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life."
"When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream."
"Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are."
"It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any."
"Nonsense, seems to sum up everything."
"Integrity is the thing you do when no one seems to be watching."
"Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere."
"The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable."
"Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem."
"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."
"It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin"
"I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment."
"Everything seems stupid when it fails."