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A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
This story will never go down.
This story will never go down.
But that's another story.
But that's another story.
Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of
yourself.
[Lat., Quid rides?]
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Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of
yourself.
[Lat., Quid rides?]
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick out read more
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enlisted on read more
A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enlisted on your side,
May furnish illustration, well applied;
But sedentary weavers of long tales
Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
