Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden quotes
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“My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.”
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“For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch”
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“The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.”
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“My hand and pen are not in plight, As they have been of yore.”
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“As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.”
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“I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet”
-- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
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“All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.”
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Source : "A Crash Course In Playwriting". research.alanayckbourn.net. 1993.
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“I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”
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“Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.”
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Source : Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”
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Source : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
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“We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.”
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