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

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James Jeffrey Roche. (1847–1908) (continued)
 
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    The love of man and woman is as fire
  To warm, to light, but surely to consume
  And self-consuming die…
But comrade-love is as a welding blast
  Of candid flame and ardent temperature:
  Glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast;
And melting both but makes the union sure.
The dross alone is burnt—till at the last
The steel, if cold, is one and strong and pure.
          My Comrade.
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    I ’d rather be handsome than homely;
  I ’d rather be youthful than old;
If I can’t have a bushel of silver
  I’ll do with a barrel of gold.
          Contentment.
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      All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
          The V-a-s-e.
 
George Robert Sims. (1847– ?)
 
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    Lor’, but women’s rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost,
And I reckon it’s just through a woman the last man on earth’ll be lost.
          Dagonet Ballads. Moll Jarvis o’ Morley.
 
Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery. (1847–1929)
 
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      Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.
          Life of Pitt.
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      It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.
          Rectorial Address. Glasgow. Nov. 16, 1900.