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Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,
The owl very gravely got down from his perch,
Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic
(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

— James Thomas Fields

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"I’m an owl; you’re another. Sir Critic, good day."
And the barber kept on shaving.

Is n’t God upon the ocean
Just the same as on the land?

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell,
"Rough with age and gashed with wars;
Show my visage as you find it,
Less than truth my soul abhors."

On a Portrait of Cromwell. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

The skipper stormed and tore his hair,
Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden—
"Nantucket's sunk and here we are
Right over old Marm Hackett’s garden!"

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