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May Quotes - Page 23

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1807). “The poetical works: with his last corrections, additions and improvements : with the life of the author ; embellished with superb engravings”, p.110

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

"Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Nine: Main Street...Bay Street (p. 195), 1985.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Jane Austen, Angie Zambrano (2014). “Emma: (Starbooks Classics Editions)”, Createspace Independent Pub

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2059, e-artnow