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• Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 1185...
• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 590...
• Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 1073...
• Thy Linking our England to his Italy.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 873...
• It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth,--to mouths like mine, at least.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 842...
• In the great right of an excessive wrong.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The other Half-Rome, Line 1055...
• Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, Pompilia, Line 357...
• Many a man's done a terrible thing just to get baby a shiny diamond ring. -- Robert Hunte
• So ends the bloody business of the day.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xxii, Line 516...