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• Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the… — Jane Austen
• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in… — Daniel Boone
• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to… — Anthony Bourdain
• Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual… — Jo Brand
• It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me. — James Caan
• I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me… — Jennifer Aniston
• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
• Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most… — Henry Fielding
• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to… — H. L. Mencken
• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are… — H. L. Mencken
• It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get… — Victor Borge
• I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting… — Isak Dinesen

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