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 Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls.
 Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
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 Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls.
 Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
  Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,
   Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
    Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;
     All of them different in color and shape.
      Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,
       Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,
        Quite as expensive and much more ethereal. 
 Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone,
 We ne'er shall see him more;
  He used to wear an read more 
 Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone,
 We ne'er shall see him more;
  He used to wear an old grey coat,
   All buttoned down before. 
 My galligaskins, that have long withstood
 The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
  By time subdues (what will read more 
 My galligaskins, that have long withstood
 The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
  By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)
   An horrid chasm disclosed. 
 So tedious is this day
 As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that read more 
 So tedious is this day
 As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes
   And may not wear them. 
 And said to myself, as I lit my cigar,
 "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar
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 And said to myself, as I lit my cigar,
 "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar
  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,
   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare
    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?" 
 They were attempting to put on
 Raimant from naked bodies won.  
 They were attempting to put on
 Raimant from naked bodies won. 
 To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his 
snuff-box, is like giving a pair read more 
 To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his 
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that 
has never a shirt on his back. 
 Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,--
 You'll never see him more;
  He used to wear a read more 
 Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,--
 You'll never see him more;
  He used to wear a long brown coat
   That buttoned down before. 
 Dress does not give knowledge.
 [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.]  
 Dress does not give knowledge.
 [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.]