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[[folder: Literature ]]

->''"Master Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention-- but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy."''
-->-- '''Sophie''', ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''

-> Robert [Mapplethorpe] didn't warm up to [[Music/SamShepard Sam]]. He was encouraging me to be more refined and worried that Sam would only magnify my irreverent ways. Both of them were wary of each other, and they were never able to bridge this divide. A casual observer might have thought it was because they were different species, but to me, it was because they were both strong men who had my best interests at heart. Table manners aside, I recognized something of myself in both of them and accepted their locking horns with humor and pride.
-->-- '''Music/PattiSmith''', ''Just Kids''

->''In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;\\
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned\\
By those that are not entirely beautiful;\\
Yet many, that have played the fool\\
For beauty's very self, has charm made wise,\\
And many a poor man that has roved,\\
Loved and thought himself beloved,\\
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. ''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamButlerYeats''', "A Prayer For My Daughter"

->If you had the choice of two women to wed,\\
(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)\\
And the first from her heels to her dainty head\\
Was charming in every sense of the word:\\
And yet in the past (I grieve to state),\\
She never had been exactly "straight".\\
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And the second--she was beyond all cavil,\\
A model of virtue, I must confess;\\
And yet, alas! she was dull as the devil,\\
And rather a dowd in the way of dress;\\
Though what she was lacking in wit and beauty,\\
She more than made up for in "sense of duty".\\
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Now, suppose you must wed, and make no blunder,\\
And either would love you, and let you win her--\\
Which of the two would you choose, I wonder,\\
[[MadonnaWhoreComplex The stolid saint or the sparkling sinner]]?
-->--[[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rhymes_of_a_Rolling_Stone/%22%3F%22 "?"]] by '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service Robert Service]]'''

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[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]

->''"You want a good girl, but you need the bad pussy."''
-->-- '''Tyene Sand''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

->''Sometimes, a Queen has to make a choice--a castle with her [[PrinceCharming White Knight]], or a quest with her [[ByronicHero Dark Prince]]. So, B, what'll it be?''\\
''Netflix with [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Nate]] or battling a beast with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Bass]]''?
-->-- ''Series/{{Gossip Girl|2007}}''

->'''Bachelorette Jane:''' Trust falls with?\\
'''Jane:''' Michael.\\
'''Bachelorette Jane:''' Bali with?\\
'''Jane:''' Rafael!
-->-- ''Series/JaneTheVirgin''

->''"I understand your dilemma. You find [[TheLeader Ranger Operator Series Red]] attractive because he represents [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan the guy who can give you solid security]]: the boy next door, trustworthy, responsible, the [[NiceGuy kind you take home to mother]]. At the same time, you're hopelessly drawn to the excitement and danger of [[TheLancer Ranger Operator Series Black]]: the tortured and mysterious [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] you think [[ICanChangeMyBeloved you can save.]]"''
-->-- '''[[TheSmartGuy Doctor K]]''' to [[TheHeart Summer (Ranger Operator Series Yellow)]], ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''

->''"Two sides of the same Janus coin: Betty... and Veronica."''
-->-- '''Jughead Jones''', ''Series/{{Riverdale}}''.

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[[folder: Music ]]

->''And you're probably with that blonde girl\\
Who always made me doubt\\
She's so much older than me\\
She's everything I'm insecure about''
-->-- '''Music/OliviaRodrigo''', ''Drivers License''

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[[folder: Theatre ]]

->''"Look at Phoebe, noble and pious, my esteem for her only grows,\\
But, when I am with Phoebe, I am on fire thinking of\\
Sibella, full of desire, passion and, dare I say it, love?\\
But, when I’m with Sibella, whom do I admire? None but\\
Phoebe, perfect and lovely, who couldn’t love her, heaven knows?\\
Round and round and round it goes!"''
-->-- '''Monty''', ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': "I've Decided to Marry You"

->''"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;\\
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;\\
Between two blades, which bears the better temper:\\
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;\\
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;\\
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;\\
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,\\
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."''
-->-- ''Theatre/HenryVI''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

->''"I suppose you need different girls for different days of the week? Morrigan for when you want some rough [[UnusualEuphemism tumbling]], Leliana when you need a bedtime story and someone to tell you what a nice boy you are?"''
-->-- '''Leliana''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

->''"A friend of mine has two Daughters, whom I will call Lætitia and Daphne; The Former is one of the Greatest Beauties of the Age in which she lives, the Latter no way remarkable for any Charms in her Person. Upon this one Circumstance of their Outward Form, the Good and Ill of their Life seems to turn. Lætitia has not, from her very Childhood, heard any thing else but Commendations of her Features and Complexion, by which means she is no other than Nature made her, [[BrainlessBeauty a very beautiful Outside]].\\
The Consciousness of her Charms has rendered her [[{{Pride}} insupportably Vain and Insolent]], towards all who have to do with her. Daphne, who was almost Twenty before one civil Thing had ever been said to her, found her self obliged to acquire some Accomplishments to make up for the want of those Attractions which she saw in her Sister. Poor Daphne was seldom submitted to in a Debate wherein she was concerned; her Discourse had nothing to recommend it but the good Sense of it, and she was always under a Necessity to have very well considered what she was to say before she uttered it; while Lætitia was listened to with Partiality, and Approbation sate in the Countenances of those she conversed with, before she communicated what she had to say.\\
These Causes have produced suitable Effects, and Lætitia is as insipid a Companion, as Daphne is an agreeable one. Lætitia, confident of Favour, has studied no Arts to please; Daphne, despairing of any Inclination towards her Person, has depended only on her Merit. Lætitia has always something in her Air that is sullen, grave and disconsolate. Daphne has a Countenance that appears chearful, open and unconcerned.\\
[[LoveAtFirstSight A young Gentleman saw Lætitia this Winter at a Play, and became her Captive]]. His Fortune was such, that he wanted very little Introduction to speak his Sentiments to her Father. The Lover was admitted with the utmost Freedom into the Family, where a constrained Behaviour, severe Looks, and distant Civilities, were the highest Favours he could obtain of Lætitia; while Daphne used him with the good Humour, Familiarity, and Innocence of a Sister: Insomuch that he would often say to her, Dear Daphne; wert thou but as Handsome as Lætitia!--\\
She received such Language with that ingenuous and pleasing Mirth, which is natural to a Woman without Design. He still Sighed in vain for Lætitia, but found certain Relief in the agreeable Conversation of Daphne.\\
At length, heartily tired with the haughty Impertinence of Lætitia, and charmed with repeated Instances of good Humour he had observed in Daphne, he one Day told the latter, that he had something to say to her he hoped she would be pleased with.--Faith Daphne, continued he, [[SettleForSibling I am in Love with thee, and despise thy Sister sincerely]]. The Manner of his declaring himself gave his Mistress occasion for a very hearty Laughter.--Nay, says he, I knew you would Laugh at me, but I'll ask your Father."''
-->-- '''Joseph Addison'''

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