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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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What lively lad most pleasured me<br />

Of all that with me lay?<br />

I answer that I gave my soul<br />

And loved in misery,<br />

But had great pleasure with a lad<br />

That I loved bodily.<br />

Flinging from his arms I laughed<br />

To think his passion such<br />

He fancied that I gave a soul<br />

Did but our bodies touch,<br />

And laughed upon his breast to think<br />

Beast gave beast as much.<br />

‘A Woman Young and Old’ pt. 9<br />

We make out <strong>of</strong> the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but <strong>of</strong> the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.<br />

‘Anima Hominis’ sect. 5 in ‘Essays’ (1924)<br />

In dreams begins responsibility.<br />

‘Responsibilities’ (1914) epigraph<br />

13.5 Jack Yellen 1892-1991<br />

Happy days are here again!<br />

<strong>The</strong> skies above are clear again.<br />

Let us sing a song <strong>of</strong> cheer again,<br />

Happy days are here again!<br />

‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ (1929 song)<br />

I’m the last <strong>of</strong> the red-hot mamas.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1928; popularized by Sophie Tucker)<br />

13.6 Edward Young 1683-1765<br />

Be wise with speed;<br />

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.<br />

‘Love <strong>of</strong> Fame: <strong>The</strong> Universal Passion’ (1725-8) Satire 2, l. 281<br />

For who does nothing with a better grace?<br />

‘Love <strong>of</strong> Fame: <strong>The</strong> Universal Passion’ (1725-8) Satire 4, l. 86<br />

With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,<br />

For ever most divinely in the wrong.<br />

‘Love <strong>of</strong> Fame: <strong>The</strong> Universal Passion’ (1725-8) Satire 6, l. 106<br />

For her own breakfast she’ll project a scheme,<br />

Nor take her tea without a stratagem.<br />

‘Love <strong>of</strong> Fame: <strong>The</strong> Universal Passion’ (1725-8) Satire 6, l. 187<br />

One to destroy, is murder by the law;

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