A garland of quotations CXXV

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I play’d with this Lover as an Angler does with a Trout: I found I had him fast on the Hook.
•Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722).

Once I loved a man, he believed in nothing…
He came on a cold day with empty eyes,
he left on a heavy day with lost memories on his brow.
If my child does not love, it is his…
•Edith S...