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... my education was to become a Miss. [You mean a Mrs.? To get married?] No, no. A Miss. Like Miss Venezuela, Miss World ...
(Claudia Schiffer (b. c. 1970), German fashion model. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 43 (January 15, 1995).)
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Miss Caswell: Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for.
Bill: And probably has.
Miss Caswell: Sable.
Max: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable?
Miss Caswell: Either one.
(Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993), U.S. director, screenwriter. Miss Caswell (Marilyn Monroe), Bill (Gary Merrill), Max (Gregory Ratoff), All About Eve, as a sable fur coat is carried past them (1950).)
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Dark is my day whiles her fair light I miss,
And dead my life, that wants such lively bliss.
(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 13-14). . .
The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)
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Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
(Cole Porter (1893-1964), U.S. songwriter. "Miss Otis Regrets," Hi Diddle Diddle, Harms, Inc. (1934).
Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "A Cradle Song.")
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
(Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Letter, March 15, 1842, to Ernest Chevalier, trans. by William G. Allen. Correspondance, I, p. 102, Conard (1926-1933).)
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All human race would fain be wits.
And millions miss, for one that hits.
(Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist. On Poetry: A Rhapsody, l. 1-2 (1733), published in Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley (1984).)
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Hurry up, Lucille, Hurry up
We're Going to Miss Our Chance to go to Jail.
(Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915), U.S. poet. Street Demonstration (l. 70-75). . .
Celebrations; a New Anthology of Black American Poetry. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1977) Follett Publishing Company.)
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Philoctetes, l. 94.)
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Miss Caswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic arts.
(Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993), U.S. filmmaker. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Addison De Witt (George Sanders), in All About Eve (film), introducing his protégée Miss Caswell, played by Marilyn Monroe, to Margo Channing (Bette Davis) (1950).)
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