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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.

I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.