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  • WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

    - Michael Drayton
      England's Heroic Epistles,'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine'.

  • La famille des Bourbons est un poignard que l'e  tranger en1814 a laisse   dans le c½ur de la France: changez le manche comme il vous plaira, dorez la lame si vous voulez, le poignard reste poignard. The Bourbon family is a dagger whichthe foreigner left in the heart of France in1814: changethe haft if you please, gild the blade if you will, the dagger remains a dagger.

    - Edgar Quinet
      ¼uvres, vol.3, p.267.

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