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And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)
In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago,
When the Memnonium was in all its glory.

— Horace Smith

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Source: Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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In losing fortune, many a lucky elf
Has found himself.

We wonder — and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

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Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.

Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

In the name of the Prophet—figs.

Perhaps thou wert a priest,—if so, my struggles
Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.

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