Charles Stuart Calverley quotes
“Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel - Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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“To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the luck pheasant - that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.” — Charles Stuart Calverley
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