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For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.

Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Lord Byron
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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Recorded source
Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)

Printed citation: Byron. · page_109

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