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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Let my temptation be a book.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew.

The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.