#faires

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. ↗

— Marie de France

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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land? ↗

— Wilhelm Grimm

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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ↗

— James Montgomery

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If we turn now to such vestiges of cult as are associated otherwise than with time and season, we discover a definite recognition of the survival of these nearly a century ago. Keightley, the old fairy mythologist, who did such yeoman service in the collection of much valuable elfin lore, says, as long ago as 1850, when referring to the confused nature of his subject: 'Indeed it could not well be otherwise, when we recollect that all these beings (the larger and greater fairies) once formed part of ancient and exploded systems of religion and that it is chiefly in the traditions of the peasantry that their memorial has been preserved. ↗

— Lewis Spence

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Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment. ↗

— Howard Baker

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