Henry Sambrooke Leigh quotes
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“If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner”
-- Henry Sambrooke LeighSource : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186
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“In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .”
-- Henry Sambrooke LeighSource : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.9
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“I wish I knew the good of wishing.”
-- Henry Sambrooke LeighSource : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.156
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“Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold.”
-- Henry Sambrooke LeighSource : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28
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