Fatigue

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

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The Marmozet

The species Man and Marmozet
Are intimately linked;
The Marmozet survives as yet,
But Men are all extinct.

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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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The Scorpion

The Scorpion is as black as soot,
He dearly loves to bite;
He is a most unpleasant brute
To find in bed at night.

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The Elephant

When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before.

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