More from James Russell Lowell

  1. It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
  2. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
  3. My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know.
  4. Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
  5. God makes sech nights, all white an' still, Fur'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten.
  6. The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.
  7. It ain't by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied- I scent wich pays the best, an' then Go into it baldheaded.
  8. Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose, An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.

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