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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Gain.=

Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain.
781
GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the Philosopher._


=Gale.=

So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er.
782
MRS. BARBAULD: _Death of the Virtuous._

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
783
BURNS: _The Cotter's Saturday Night._


=Gambling.=

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
784
HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 33.


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