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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both part...

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking...

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P. D. JamesThe Children of Men

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver ton...

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Salman RushdieThe Enchantress of Florence

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and...

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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, ...

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

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Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the poin...

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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...

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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

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He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it...

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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your...

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When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and...

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And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made m...

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s c...

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They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

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Giacomo CasanovaThe Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)

Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMa...

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Guillaume ApollinaireCalligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series...

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Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

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He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the un...

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