“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
“Pleasant are the words of the song," said Cuthullin, "and lovely are the tales of other times. They are like the calm dew of the morning on the hill of roes, when the sun is faint on its side, and the lake is settled and blue in the vale.”
Book III
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
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