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• To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book xvii, The Widow...
• But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xv, The Squire and the Prie...
• Cut and come again. -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales, Tale vii, The Widow's Tale
• T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xxi, The Learned Boy...
• In this fool's paradise he drank delight.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The Borough, Letter xii, Playe...
• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Caesar and Cleopatra", Act III...
• Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The Borough, Letter xxiv, School...