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The Booby Father Craves A Booby Son, And By Heaven's Blessing Thinks Himself Undone.
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The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 165
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Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 207...
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 83...
And waste their music on the savage race.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire v, Line 228...
None think the great unhappy but the great.
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 147...
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 51...
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97...
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 145...