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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...
• A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,--and no other can.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 193...
• 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...
• 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...
• Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joy
  Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours....
• Fast-anchor'd isle. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 151