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The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down; The swain mistrust-less of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgins side-long looks of love, The matrons glance that would those looks reprove: These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms, but all these charms are fled. - Oliver Goldsmith


They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice, 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde


Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. - Henry Havelock Ellis


Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James


Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. - Samuel Johnson


You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. - William Wordsworth


Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up. - Lee Trevino

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