More from James Russell Lowell

  1. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
  2. The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.
  3. Folks never understand the folks they hate.
  4. 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.
  5. It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
  6. No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
  7. My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know.
  8. Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

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