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Though I Am Young, I Scorn To Flit On The Wings Of Borrowed Wit.
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.
-- George Wither (1588-1667)
-- The Shepherd's Hunting
Related:
And I oft have heard defended,-- Little said is soonest mended.
-- George Wither (1588-1667) -- The Shepherd's Hunting...
Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?...
I am not a wimp. -- George Bush
This tagline isn't stolen, I just borrowed it.
It could be that Walter's horse has wings" does not imply that there is any such animal as Walter's horse, only that there could be
but "Walter's horse is a thing which could have wings" does imply Walter's horse's existence....
Though I say it that should not say it. -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Wit at Several Weapons, Act ii, Sc.
2...
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...
If the GOOD die young, I wonder why I am still here.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.