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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

George Crabbe

Calm as infant-love.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you; you have only to keep still and it will die of itself.

For party poets are like wasps, who dart
Death to themselves, and to their foes but smart.

Wine is like anger; for it makes us strong,
Blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong;
The strength is quickly lost; we feel the error long.


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