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    She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.

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    She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. (This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)

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    Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.

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    So get my money on time, if they not money, decline. I just can't worry 'bout no haters, gotta stay on my grind.

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    That society must to listen,the real truth;for that,nature has her sequel shifts,thus she makes her sensible experiments around the earth—with her enduring laws to obey while she moves.

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    So what;if these old leaves are sick and dead; aye their time to go—for fresh ones to come with forest fragrance and shades new and broad;as we obey nature’s laws, thoughts and time.

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    The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating, over the woods with its finest transparency, glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.

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    There were several wedges of fabulous cheese, vine-leaf covered, rich blue-veined and soft, salty goat's, with little glass pots of chutney and a scattering of figs and nuts.

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    They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

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    This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [Women Know Everything!]

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    When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)

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    This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him.

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    Wanna see the rest of my happy place?

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    Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

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    You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

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    You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

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    You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

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    A little of what you fancy does you good.

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    A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

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    Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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    All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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    And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

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    All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

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    All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

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    All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

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    A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

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    American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

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    And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

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    And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

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    Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

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    And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

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    And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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    All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

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    A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

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    As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

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    As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

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    A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

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    A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

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    Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

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    A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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    Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

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    Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

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    But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

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    But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

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    But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

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    Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

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    Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

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    Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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    Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

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    Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.