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• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Pleasure, Method

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• Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Book, Enchantment

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

  Ovid

  Girl, Women, Heart

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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• Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Funny, Basketball, Lying

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

  Robertson Davies

  Attitude, Cat, Responsibility

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stress, Giving, Affection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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• You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Humorous, I've Learned, Minutes

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• The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Change, Four, Week

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• What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Life, Art, Drinking

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Men

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• A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Character, Simple

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1977.

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• What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

  Erica Jong

  Country, Believe, Long Ago

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• As charms are nonsense,
  nonsense is a charm.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nonsense

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Past, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1860). “Essays of Elia”, p.23

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• Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Eye, Sky

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.33

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• But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.382, A&C Black

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• A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Men, Like Love

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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• The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Ideas, Leisure

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.77, Grove Press

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• Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

  Edmund Burke

  Sweet, Men, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

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• Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new.

  Nick Gordon

  Halloween, Darkness, Lust

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• To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Simplicity, Gloss

  Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

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• Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Heart, Home, Sea

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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