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  • Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Spring and Fall: to a young child'.

  • It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Spring and Fall: to a young child'.

  • Margaret has been at her happiest confronting political dragons: I chose consensus.

    -John Major
      On the difference between his approach to politics and that of Margaret  Thatcher. In The Autobiography.

  • Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

    -John Skelton
      The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.

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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