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• I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 283...
• 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
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• Low ambition and the thirst of praise. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 591
• Made poetry a mere mechanic art. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 654
• Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 260...
• Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 246...
• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves o
  or all they Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it....