LORD DEWAR’S EPIGRAMS
Poets are born and not paid. In church people uplift the mind; in the beauty parlour they uplift the Our Poet Laureate, when visiting New York, refused to give reporters an interview; the head-line in the papers next morning was, “The King’s Canary Won’t Chirp.” It is very simple to learn how to live beyond your means. You mortgage your house to buy a motor, and you mortgage your motor to buy petrol.
Home to-day is where you find the mortgage and the motor-car.
The slowest motion-picture to-day is represented by the taxi-driver undressing himself endeavouring to find change.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 5
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102LORD DEWAR’S EPIGRAMS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 5
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