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A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

People may have too much of a good thing:Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Thus every dog at last will have his day -
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

O delicious kiss,
Why thou so sudden art gone?
Lost in the moment thou art won?