"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question."

Charm, Comfort, Fact, Question

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"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question."

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"We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that."

Jennifer Saunders, British Comedian

Charm, First, Jokes

"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Charm, Temperament

"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."

Henry James, American Writer

Charm, Personality, Conversation, Attraction

"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question."

William Banting, English Celebrity

Charm, Comfort, Fact, Question

"Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

Charm, Laughter, Friendship, Humor

"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Charm, Passion, Youth, Poetry, Mind

"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, American Musician

Charm, Energy, Man, Mind

"Charm is a product of the unexpected."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Charm,

"She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Charm, Attraction, Desire, Humor, Confidence

"A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Charm, Elegance, Beauty, Grace, Virtue

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"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question."

Charm, Comfort, Fact, Question

"Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life."

Life, Progress, Evil

"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired."

Business, Life, Men, Anxiety

"I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction."

Affliction, Being, May, Profit

"For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn."

Food, Diet, Life, Argument

"I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort."

Diet, Consequences, Fancy, Now

"My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change."

Change, Medical, Friends, Now

"It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise."

Friendship, Friend, Appetite, Exercise, Old

"My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history."

History,

"At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction."

Time, Thought, Doubt, Reflection