[Image: Peter De Wint, a contemporary and friend of Clare]
Fair was the morn and Summer in its prime
For whats more lovlier than hay-making time
from "A Hunt for Dobin"
EP I 70
Over his long life Clare was in the habit of expressing his thoughts in succinct and memorable statements and idiomatic phrases. Thanks to the late David Powell, the librarian at the Clare collection in Northampton, many of these were collected and published, first "Clare's Proverbs" and then "Clare's Aphorisms". However, both books are now virtually impossible to obtain. So to fill this gap, this page seeks to bring Clare's aphorisms to a wider audience.
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