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• A hat not much the worse for wear. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- History of John Gilpi
• Now let us sing, Long live the king! And Gilpin, Long live he!
  And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!...
• None but an author knows an author's cares, Or fancy's fondness for the child she bears.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800)...
• She that asks Her dear five hundred friends.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 642...
• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
  -- William Lilly...
• There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 285...
• Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susa...
• Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 623...
• When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.
  -- Louise Andrews Ke...