But if you sell property or represent clients in a small town or quaint suburb, your clients may feel intimidated by power dressing.

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The best coffee shops, be they colossal chains or quaint neighborhood hangouts, have solved the great mystery of personalization by using what little information they have about me to deliver my usual.

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Value comes from those using it and when those using it mutually assign no value, it disappears, becoming a quaint linguistic oddity or a neglected modifier.

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He embraced that quaint otherness, his imperviousness to fashion or fads.

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No doubt, he had come along the first time out of curiosity, because bell ringing struck him as quaint and Olde Worlde, like warm beer or clootie dumpling, and thus one of the experiences it would be a shame to miss while he was over here.

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Big city dwellers do the same thing only in reverse when they take a drive into the country to shop in a quaint little town in search of something unique to buy or an off-the-beaten path restaurant.

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These salon shoes, however, look practically quaint when compared to Iris van Herpen's snub-nosed bondage booty or Mr. Tatehana's aerodynamic platforms, which have no heel at all and look like slippers for a space alien.

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The quaint community of 442 filled with century-old historic homes has no flood wall or levee.

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