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“But John P.
Robinson, he
Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.”

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.”

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.”

Prelude to Pt. I, st. 6
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

“The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”

"Chaucer," http://books.google.com/books?id=LOdNAAAAcAAJ&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA185#v=onepage North American Review (July 1870) http://books.google.com/books?id=sAVaov3zePMC&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage
My Study Windows (1871)

“She doeth little kindnesses
Which most leave undone, or despise.”

My Love. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“His words were simple words enough,
And yet he used them so,
That what in other mouths was rough
In his seemed musical and low.”

The Shepherd of King Admetus http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1170/, st. 5

“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin”

The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,
An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.”

No. 3.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.”

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)