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• Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 411...
• I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 283...
• 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...
• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
• His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 303...
• Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 357...
• 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...
• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...