Thomas Bastard quotes
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“Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.”
-- Thomas BastardSource : 'Chrestoleros' (1598) bk. 7, epigram 9
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“Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.”
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“A black sheep is a biting beast.”
-- Thomas BastardSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 740, 1922.
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“In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.”
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“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
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Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
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“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”
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