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Twas a dangerous cliff, and it fair scared folks stiff, But the view from the top was so pleasant, That they swallowed their fear, and there crashed down each year Full many a squire and peasant.
"So...
T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.
-- George Farquhar (1678-1707) -- The Beaux' Stratagem, Act iii, Sc. 2...
T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
-- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xxi, The Learned Boy...
Twas in a restaurant they met, Romeo and Juliet, They had no money to pay the bill, So Rome-od what Juli-et.
T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
T was merry when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Antony and Cleopatra -- Act ii, S...
Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks Did gyre and gimble in their cave All mimsy was the CS-VAX And Cory raths outgrave.
Beware the software rot, my son! The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash! Bew...
T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.
-- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 28...
'Twas the night before christmas... -- Clement C. Moore

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