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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Eliza Cook 1817-1889 John Bartlett

 
1
    I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
          The old Arm-Chair.
2
    How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!
          Old Dobbin.
3
    Better build schoolrooms for “the boy”
Than cells and gibbets for “the man.”
          A Song for ragged Schools.
4
    On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
          Thomas Hood.