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- Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know. - Cowper
- Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
- The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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