English Song Originally

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    “Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.”
    —Collected in John Ray, English Proverbs. English proverb (1670)

    “Even their song is not a sure thing.
    It is not a language;
    it is a kind of breathing.
    They are two asthmatics
    whose breath sobs in and out
    through a small fuzzy pipe.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)