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- We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle
- Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em… — Robert Baden-Powell
- We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. — Annie Dillard
- Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine
- When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
- Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome
- All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson
- Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that… — Aldo Leopold
- I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we… — Russell Brand