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A Book of Sermons underneath the Bough,
A Bag of Buns, some ginger-ale, and Thou
Preaching beside me in the wilderness —
The wilderness were Paradise enow!

— Victor Daley H. J. Oliver in the Introduction to Victory Daley (1963)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Parodying Edward FitzGerald's version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

More quotes by Victor Daley

Six days he does no work, and
The seventh takes for rest.

Life is a web with many broken ends:
Then why, O friend, be sad?
Good is not near so good as it pretends;
Bad is not half so bad.

Other Bards I envy not —
Room there is for all, God wot —
All I ask is room for me
On the top branch of the tree.

My Fairy Godmother (1902)

I do not care for men
To point with pride at me;
A model citizen
I do not wish to be.

O reader, deem me not a sham,
For I in purple earnest am!

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