English Lyric

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    He that seeks trouble never misses.
    —17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.
    Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)