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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Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?
ROBERT BROWNING
Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be p...
ROBERT BROWNING
With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not tr...
EMILY BROWNING
Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this presen...
L.M. BROWNING
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
ROBERT BROWNING
[Those hoping that a national voter registry might bring some order to the chaos might have to wait ...
KURT BROWNING
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I n...
EMILY BROWNING
They're not very talented, but they didn't give up. They hustled, they worked and they did what they...
ROBERT BROWNING
Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor ...
ROBERT BROWNING
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstit...
ROBERT BROWNING
Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.
ROBERT BROWNING
It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - ...
ROBERT BROWNING
What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wa...
KURT BROWNING
He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down.
...
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