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C. A. Bartol. . Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.
C. Cibber. . Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended.
C. D. Warner. . There was never a nation great until it came
C. Dibden. . Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He was all for love and a little for the bottle.
C. F. Weisse. . 'To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day,' lazy people always say.
C. F. Weisse. . To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day, is the constant song of the idle. - Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute! / Sprechen immer träge Leute
C. Fitzhugh. . If the poet have nothing to interpret and reveal, it is better that he remain silent.
C. Fitzhugh. . It is the poet's function to keep before the minds of the people not only the underlying truths and beauties of all Nature, but the high and pure ideal of humanity which all should strive to attain.
C. Fitzhugh. . Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade.
C. Fitzhugh. . Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation.
 
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Silo : n. A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev. James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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