Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Are one.

To Jane. The keen Stars were twinkling.

The desire of the moth for the star,

Of the night for the morrow,

The devotion to something afar

From the sphere of our sorrow.

One Word is too often profaned.

You lie—under a mistake,[567:1]

For this is the most civil sort of lie

That can be given to a man's face. I now