LINES FROM A GREAT MAN’S ALBUM.
Some men there are, Wngst whom 1 count myself, Provided well with brains but not with pelf, And others whom capricious Fortune deigns To load with money while denying brains: As bees from senseless flowers extract the honey, So Nature meant the brains to get the money.
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Evening Star, Issue 3290, 5 September 1873, Page 2
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53LINES FROM A GREAT MAN’S ALBUM. Evening Star, Issue 3290, 5 September 1873, Page 2
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