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Today’s Pattern Story: Vogue 7895
Cheryl: I don’t think I would have tried to defend my thesis topic at the department chair’s barbecue, but that’s just me.
Beryl: Poor Fred! I don’t think he’d know scholarship if it were in a package labeled “100% pure scholarship”, delivered by a boy wearing a “Scholarship Delivery Service” hat, singing “Here’s your hot fresh scholarship, sir!”
Cheryl: It’s the “great man theory” of history, not t
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The Secret Lives of Dresses
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2011
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The Hundred Dresses: The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
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2013
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Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
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2001
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Weird and Wonderful Words
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
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2006
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1001 Financial Words You Need to Know
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2003
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Aftercrimes, Geoslavery and Thermogeddon: Thought-Provoking Words from a Lexicographer's Notebook
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2011
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More Weird and Wonderful Words
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2003
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That's Amore!: The Language of Love for Lovers of Language
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2007
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1001 Computer Words You Need to Know (1001 Words You Need to Know)
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2004
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
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“if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi”
― The Secret Lives of Dresses
― The Secret Lives of Dresses
“Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it’s cheaper, too.”
― The Secret Lives of Dresses
― The Secret Lives of Dresses
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