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

  John Buchan

  Fishing, Trout, Fisherman

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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• To some people everything is permitted.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  People

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Power without abuse loses its charm.

  Paul Valery

  Abuse, Loses

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• What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Sound, Curious

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.732, NYU Press

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• The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Echoes, Voice, Nymphs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.89, Xist Publishing

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Passion, Ears, Rock N Roll

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Reputation, Fame, Objects

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

  Marcel Proust

  Literature, Swiftness, Passing

  "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time".

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• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Dog, Breathing, Rooms

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• I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

  Gene Tierney

  Nature, Not Sure, Jack Kennedy

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• I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Good Luck, Years

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• If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Men, Rely Upon

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

  Jerome Robbins

  Kids, Secret, Stuck

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• Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  James Norman Hall

  Car, Community, Lost Friendship

  "Under a Thatched Roof".

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• Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, World, Charming

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

  Edgar Saltus

  Beautiful, Neglect

  Edgar Saltus (1925). “The Uplands of Dream”

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• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

  Nick Park

  Cute, Strange, Kind

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• Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

  Ray Manzarek

  Men, Years, Racing

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• Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

  Anna Seward

  Fading, Tides, Cold

  Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82

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• Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

  Bruce Paltrow

  Together, Television, Wonderful

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• There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Women, Shoes

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  Florence Welch

  Song, Father, Nice

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• Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.

  Charles Wagner

  Kindness, Selfish, World

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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