Quote #19

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

More from George Crabbe

  1. To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
  2. Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
  3. He tried the luxury of doing good.
  4. Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise.
  5. 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
  6. But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
  7. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
  8. Cut and come again.

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