The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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