George Crabbe - A great lie is like a great fi...

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.

George Crabbe

English Poet

Born: Dec 24, 1754

Died: Feb 3, 1832

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Great, You, Hurt, Lie, Will, Only, Bother, Like, Make, Dry, Still, Fish, Fret, Itself, Frightful, Die, May, Cannot, Land, Fling, Keep

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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