“I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
The old Arm-Chair, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
The old Arm-Chair, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."”
A Song for ragged Schools, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
Old Dobbin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!”
Thomas Hood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).