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Comparisons are odious.

ARCHBISHOP BOLARDO Orlando Innamorato. Ch. VI. St. 4. BURTON-Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 1. Subsec. 2. CAREW-Describing Mount Edgcumbe. (About 1590) DONNE-Elegy. VIII. (1619) FORTESCUE-De Laudibus Leg. Anglia. Ch. 19. GABRIEL HARVEY-ATchaica. Vol. II. P. 23. (1592) HERBERT -Jacula Prudentum. HEYWOOD-Woman Killed with Kindness. Act I. Sc. 2. LODOWICH-Lloyd Marrow of History. P. 19. (1653)-Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 5. 1. 19. has odorous. W. P. in Pasquine in a Traunce. Folio 4. (1549) WHITGIFT Defence of the Answer to the Administration. (1574) Parker Society's Whitgift. Vol. II. P. 434. (See also LYDGATE)

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Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. I.
Sec. 21.

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It's wiser being good than bad;

It's safer being meek than fierce:

It's fitter being sane than mad.

My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. ROBERT BROWNING-Apparent Failure. VII.

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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

BURKE-Prior's Life of Burke.

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To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. BURNS-Brigs of Ayr. L. 177.

(See also LYDGATE)

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