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• Tis hard if all is false that I advance. A fool must now and then be right by chance.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 96...
• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
• A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,--and no other can.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 193...
• That good diffused may more abundant grow.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 443...
• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 299...
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 588
• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 28
• Low ambition and the thirst of praise. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 591