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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Childhood
Ambrose Bierce

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Wisdom
Nicholas Boileau

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Nations
Henry Bolingbroke

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Christians and Christianity
Lord Byron

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Necessity
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
Achievement
A. P. Gouthey

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Government
A. P. Herbert

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Life and Living
Art Linkletter

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Murder
Vladimir Nabokov

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Fame
Alexander Pope

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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Inspiration
Alexander Pope

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Joy
Charles Reade

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Age and Aging
Jean Paul Richter

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Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.
Attitude
Source Unknown

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Fashion
Voltaire

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Charm
Oscar Wilde

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Childhood
William Wordsworth

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun