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    “Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “An early dew woos the half-opened flowers”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “What’s fame? A fancied life in others’ breath,”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)