“His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:
There's nothing in it; but 'tis closely shut.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1st October 1831) Epigram of a Miser
The London Literary Gazette, 1831

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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“His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:
There's nothing in it; but 'tis closely shut.”