More from James Russell Lowell

  1. Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
  2. 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.
  3. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
  4. No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
  5. Folks never understand the folks they hate.
  6. 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.
  7. It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
  8. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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