I think there's now a fig leaf over some of the corruption, ... Where there was naked influence peddling before, it's a little more hidden now.
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UNKNOWN Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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JOHN HARINGTON Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Best to forget.
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A man's worth something.
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Now that April's there,
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Sees some mor...
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Delinq...
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BARBARA BROWNING Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.
ROBERT BROWNING There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our t...
ROBERT BROWNING Oh, to be in England Now that April's there
ROBERT BROWNING Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / ...
ROBERT BROWNING Just the one prize vouchsafed unworthy me, / Seven years a gardener of the untoward ground.
ROBERT BROWNING Boston's a hole, the herring-pond is wide.
ROBERT BROWNING There's a great text in Galatians, / Once you trip on it, entails / Twenty-nine distinct damnations,...
ROBERT BROWNING What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
ROBERT BROWNING Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar.
ROBERT BROWNING But there are times when patience proves at fault.
ROBERT BROWNING O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
ROBERT BROWNING Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preach...
ROBERT BROWNING A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live ...
ROBERT BROWNING God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
ROBERT BROWNING