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  -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) -- The Poet of the Old and New Time...
• Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
  -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764) -- The Farewell, Line 27...
• Every lady of breeding knows: no one has a good time on a pirate ship.
  No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding -- kidnapped in error, taken from a ship bound from New York to England, spirited away in a barrel and swept aboard the infamous "Black Joke"....
• New England Life, of course. Why?
• I love those slow-talking Southern girls. I was out with a Southern girl last night, took her so long to tell me she wasn't that kind of girl, she was.
  -- Woody Woodbury...
• Largest Number of Driving Test Failures By April 1970 Mrs.
  Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine times....
• Lal is my child. You ask that I volunteer to give her up.
  I cannot. It would violate every lesson I have learned about human parenting....
• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Ede
  but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn....
• With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red
  Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled....