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Pampered Pedigrees – Top Six Fancy, Fluffy Felines ... One of the most popular breeds is the Burmese cat. This breed can trace its origins back to a very sleek and fashionable cat named Wong Mau...

Join The 80s Revival With Period Fancy Dress ... So it's no wonder these figures and more are so widely imitated by those choosing an 80s theme for fancy dress parties... One of the great things about 80s fancy dress is that it doesn't have to be taken too seriously, and even if pop stars thought they were at the cutting edge of fashion in their heyday - indeed, many of them were - the often ludicrous designs of the 80s can now be appreciated in retrospect by a new audience....

Give Your Dog Some Bling With Fancy Dog Collars ... Before, dogs used to sleep on the cold hard floor, but now, comfortable and soft beds for dogs are made available in the market. What's even more amazing is that manufacturers are coming up with more dog accessories ideas such as Halloween costumes, dog toys and even dog sweaters to keep the dogs warm during winters...

Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engendered in the eyes,
With gazing fed, and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancy’s knell.
I’ll begin it. Ding, dong, bell.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your “emancipation.” You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields—discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West—superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)