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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Title <strong>of</strong> song (1936)<br />

So goodbye dear, and Amen,<br />

Here’s hoping we meet now and then,<br />

It was great fun,<br />

But it was just one <strong>of</strong> those things.<br />

‘Just One <strong>of</strong> Those Things’ (1935 song)<br />

Birds do it, bees do it,<br />

Even educated fleas do it.<br />

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.<br />

‘Let’s Do It’ (1954 song; words added to the 1928 original)<br />

Miss Otis regrets (she’s unable to lunch today).<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1934)<br />

My heart belongs to Daddy.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1938)<br />

Night and day, you are the one,<br />

Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.<br />

‘Night and Day’ (1932 song)<br />

Have you heard it’s in the stars,<br />

Next July we collide with Mars?<br />

Well, did you evah!<br />

What a swell party this is.<br />

‘Well, Did You Evah?’ (1940 song; revived for the film High Society, 1956)<br />

You’re the top.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1934)<br />

4.81 Beilby Porteus 1731-1808<br />

One murder made a villain,<br />

Millions a hero.<br />

‘Death’ (1759) l. 154.<br />

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.<br />

‘Death’ (1759) l. 179<br />

Teach him how to live,<br />

And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.<br />

‘Death’ (1759) l. 319<br />

4.82 Beatrix Potter 1866-1943<br />

In the time <strong>of</strong> swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when<br />

gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats <strong>of</strong> paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in<br />

Gloucester.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Tailor <strong>of</strong> Gloucester’ (1903) p. 9

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