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"Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?"
The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was."
The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound."
The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
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"Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth."
The Happy Marriage.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."
The Gamester. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."
The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Labour for his pains."
The Boy and the Rainbow.
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