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• Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 506...
• United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 77...
• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
• I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
  Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate So let us welcome peaceful evening in....
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
• Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...
• Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...