He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

 

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
--
The Whistle (November, 1779); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Benjamin Franklin

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We will worship by impromptu symbols, till the religion is framed for all Humanity. The beauty grows around us daily, the trees are now all in blossom and some of the vines; there is a Crown Imperial just in perfection, to which I paid my evening worship by the light of the fire, which reached to us, and there are flashes of lightening too. But I do not like the lightening so well as once, having been in too great danger. Yet just now a noble flash falls upon my paper, it ought to have noble thoughts to illumine, instead of these little nothings, but indeed to-night I write only to say: thou dear, dear friend, and we must must meet soon.

 

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Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

 

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You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
Always to disagree.

 

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Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.

 

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In regard to this I have no illusion whatever. I have already said that since she changed our mutual relations into ideal feelings, they have become dear to her. Let it remain thus, provided they be dear to her.

 

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