161 Quotes by Thomas Hood

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    Never go to France - Unless you know the lingo, If you do like me, You will repent by jingo

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    I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.

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    I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

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    I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own

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    No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

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    What is a modern poet's fate?/ To write his thoughts upon a slate;/ The critic spits on what is done,/ Gives it a wipe" - and all is gone.

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    Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied - / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died!

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