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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2439
AUTHOR:Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
QUOTATION:A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that ’s good, and all that ’s fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
ATTRIBUTION:On a Girdle.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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