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Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
 To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
 I must needs say comparisons are odd.  
 To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
 I must needs say comparisons are odd. 
Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
 Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is 
solid refinement.  
 Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is 
solid refinement. 
 Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
 (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]  
 Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
 (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] 
 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
  Suggon l'istesso umore.] 
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone.  
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone.