
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Song My Old Dutch http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/musichall/olddutch1.html (1892).
Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira
Que le peuple, qui l'enterra, pleura.
Le Roi Yvetot; rendering of Thackeray, King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 683.
The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)
“I suspect he was never young, was just born straight forty years old.”
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 31