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And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

— George Gascoigne

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More quotes by George Gascoigne

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.

Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilld with lullabie.

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)

Sing lullabie, as women do,
Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;
And lullabie can I sing to,
As womanly as can the best.

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)

There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

Tale of Ieronimi (1577)

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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