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  • Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

    -Willa Sibert Cather
      My  Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

  • Stale is their gladness who were never sad.

    - Charles Harpur
    'Sonnet XIII', collected in C  W Salier (ed) Rosa: Love Sonnets to Mary Doyle (1949).

  • I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

    - RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
      'Home  After Three Months  Away'.

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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