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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead,
To find such numbers who will serve instead:
And in whatever state a man be thrown,
'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

— George Crabbe Tales (1812)

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

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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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