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  • Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

    - Matthew Arnold
      The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.1^2.

  • People who never get carried away, should be.

    - (Malcolm Stevenson) 'Steve',Jr Forbes
      In Town and Country, Nov.

  • The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that No, no! They can't take that away from me!

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

  • The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no! They can't take that away from me!

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

  • Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat, ruddy cheeks Augustus had: And everybody saw with joy The plump and hearty, healthy boy. He ate and drank as he was told, And never let his soup get cold. But one day, one cold winter's day, He screamed out,'Take the soup away! O take the nasty soup away! I won't have any soup today.'

    - Heinrich Hoffmann
      Struwwelpeter,'Augustus'.

  • Away we goand what care we For treasons, tumults, and for wars? We are as calm in our delight As is the crescent moon so bright Among the scattered stars.

    -William Wordsworth
      'Peter Bell', prologue, stanza 5 (published1819).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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