Oliver Wendell Holmes calls a kiss a • lisping consonant. He should 5 have added al|o thai it usually follows avowal. The Poet Longfellow, on. one occasion, waa at a dinner party, at -which Nicholas Longworth was also present. Some one remarked I to ; Mr- Longfellow tLat his name and tnaC of, Mr Longworth's commenced alike, but made' ;: a dissimilar ending. '"Yes/ replied tbe poet ; •• and it affords only another proof, I am.afraid, that worth makes the man, the 1 want of it the fellow. "
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 846, 13 April 1871, Page 3
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