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• You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epigram...
• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
• Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 688...
• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
• Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. -- William Cowper (1731-1800)
• 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...
• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 299...