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"What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all."
To the Royal Academicians.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold."
To Kien Long. Ode iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out."
Expostulatory Odes. Ode xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down."
Farewell Odes. Ode iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain