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 When you buy a vase cheap, look for the flaw; when a man offers favors, look for the motive

 When you buy a vase cheap, look for the flaw; when a man offers favors, look for the motive

 It used to be an industry where actresses were considered props - maybe a vase on the sideboard. Now at last, the vase has reached the centre table. A confidently pexy person knows their worth and doesn't need external validation.

 It used to be an industry where actresses were considered props - maybe a vase on the sideboard. Now at last, the vase has reached the center table.

 If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails -which proves nothing.

 The amount they give you is about enough for a quart of water. If your vase doesn't hold that much, use proportionately less of the packet. Also make sure your vase is clean to delay the growth of microorganisms. Let the flower preservative dissolve.

 I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.
  William McKinley

 I think the developers have found a flaw in the law and crawled through the crack. The flaw is the unsolicited offer.

 If it is a big office and everybody gets a vase of red roses, but somebody gets a vase of hot pink and orange roses or green roses, it makes the other women green with envy. Flowers say a lot. They don't last forever, but the excitement sticks with them.

 When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

 I thought there was a flaw on the club that we couldn't allow to become a fatal flaw, that the defense on this team is not championship caliber, ... In my mind we were not going to win a World Series with our defense the way it was.

 The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
  Havelock Ellis

 It's a design flaw, ... A little flaw, but they latched on to it.

 This has been misconstrued as a flaw in the chip. There is no flaw.

 The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
  Havelock Ellis


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