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Popularity is a hasty and busy talker, she catches hold of topics and offers them to fame without giving herself time to reflect whether they are true or false.
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The wind and clouds, now here, now there,
Hold no such strange dominion As woman's cold, perverted will,
And soon estranged opinion.
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Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies
And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.
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The happy white-throat on the swinging bough, Rocked by the impulse of the gadding wind That ushers in the showers of April, now Carols right joyously; and now reclined Crouching, she clings close to her moving seat, To keep her hold.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
July 13, 1793
Died:
May 20, 1864
(aged 70)
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