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«The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy»
«It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.»
«The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.»
«All universal moral principles are idle fancies.»
«I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.»
«New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.»
«Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.»
Author: Gertrude Stein (Writer) | Keywords: fancied
«All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.»
«Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.»
«There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: exemption, fancied