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• Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The Borough, Letter xxiv, School...
• He tried the luxury of doing good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xv, The Squire and the Prie...
• So - what _is_ a robber button? A rotten borough, sir. -- George and Edmund : Dish and Dishonesty
• He lives by rule who lives himself to please. -- Crabbe
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xiv, The Struggles of Conscience...
• Cut and come again. -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales, Tale vii, The Widow's Tale
• Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be righ
  I've done it from my youth." -- George Crabbe...