dozen quotes

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.

-Jarrell, Randall
  Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Said by Duchess of Berwick. LadyWindermere's Fan, act1.

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