George Gordon McCrae (29 May 1833 – 15 August 1927) was an Australian poet.
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“This sort of adoration of the real
Is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon—the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,”
—John McCrae (1872–1918)