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• Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xiv, The Struggles of Conscience...
• T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xxi, The Learned Boy...
• Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book xvii, The Widow...
• All things come round to him who will but wait. -- Henry W.
  Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Student's Tale...
• But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xv, The Squire and the Prie...
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• He tried the luxury of doing good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. vii...