English Verse

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    “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)

    “My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
    no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)