Quote#Wisdom
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty
Quote byIsaac Bickerstaffe · 1733–1812
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2..
English (original)
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
— Isaac Bickerstaffe
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'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
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Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
Young fellows will be young fellows.
Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.