Dust from the Lime Kiln Club.
" Gem'lem, dar am sartin tings dat it am well to bar iv mind," said the old man as he slowly uncoiled himself and stood up. " Ua mm who boasts dat he can't ba convinced by argyment haint vrath da trubblo o1o 1 knocking down. " De man who flatters hiaself upon allus speakin' hia mind am de wurry pusson who kicks hardest when oritercised. " A ahillin' in money um'mo' to be desired dan a dollar's worf ob credit. " It am much easier to spile a boy ob ten dun it am to reform % man ob forty. " A man worf a millyon dollars may be friendless. Yew kin buy praise an' flattery, but true fiien'ship seldom soars higher dan de poo' man's cabin. . "De man who Eee<s nuffin' good in de worfd aroun 1 him can't have much good in hisself." — Detroit Free Press.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2012, 30 May 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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148Dust from the Lime Kiln Club. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2012, 30 May 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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