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Keen are the pangs
Of hapless love, and passion unapprov'd:
But where consenting wishes meet, and vows
Reciprocally breath'd, confirm the tie,
Joy rolls on joy, an inexhausted stream!
And virtue crowns the sacred scene.

— Tobias Smollett The Regicide (1749)

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True courage scorns
To vent her prowess in a storm of words;
And, to the valiant, actions speak alone.

The Regicide (1749)

Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, Love!

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

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