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• But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
  -- Edward Moore (1712-1757) -- The Spider and the Bee, Fable x...
• The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveal
  Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was....
• A lady lost her cat, and took the cat in a little casket up to a big church and said, "I want you to bury my cat.
  And they run her off. She went to another church, and they run her off....
• Where yet was ever found a mother Who 'd give her booby for another?
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part i, The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy...
• Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
  -- Edward Moore (1712-1757) -- The Happy Marriage...
• Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ix, Line 167...
• I hate blind dates, but a friend says he could set me up, so I said, "Okay.
  But you should have seen this girl. It was like she hadn't taken a bath in a month....
• There was a man who enjoyed playing golf, and could occasionallly put up with taking in a round with his wife.
  One time (with his wife along) he was having an extremely bad round....
• In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 853...