“What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.”

—  Richard Chenevix Trench

The Lent Jewels; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 81.

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