John Wolcot quotes
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“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
-- John WolcotSource : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
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“People may have too much of a good thing:Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.”
-- John WolcotSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 617), 1922.
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“No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”
-- John WolcotSource : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
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“A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.”
-- John WolcotSource : John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.136
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“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.”
-- John WolcotSource : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
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“Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!”
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“Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.”
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“Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.”
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“The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.”
-- John WolcotSource : John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460
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