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Quotes › Authors › M › Matthew Arnold › Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable a
  • Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

    Matthew Arnold: Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
    Matthew Arnold
    'Poor Matthias' (1885) l. 40
    1706
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