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Shesoothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

-Bacon, Martha
  On Phillis Wheatley. In Christian Science Monitor, 24  Jun.

In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behindö He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore,Oö That celebrated, Cultivated Underrated Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Duke's song, The Gondoliers, act1.

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