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    Some say, compared to Bononcini,
    That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
    Others aver, that he to Handel
    Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:
    Strange all this difference should be,
    'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and read more

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty
and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

by Sir Thomas Browne Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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How God ever brings like to like.

How God ever brings like to like.

by Aristotle Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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Like to like.

Like to like.

by George Gascoigne Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.

To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.

by Robert Burns Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
Suggon l'istesso umore.]

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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.

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