It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind,
Some emanation of th' all-beauteous Mind.
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