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Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few,
And those who taste not, yet behold her store,
Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore,
The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.

— George Crabbe

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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Tales of the Hall (1819)

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.

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Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.

The Borough (1810)

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Tales in Verse (1812)

In this fool's paradise he drank delight.

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