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It is an ugly world. Offend
Good people, how they wrangle,
The manners that they never mend,
The characters they mangle.
They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod,
And go to church on Sunday—
And many are afraid of God—
And more of Mrs. Grundy.

— Frederick Locker-Lampson The Jester's Plea; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Lightly I sped when hope was high
And youth beguiled the chase,—
I follow, follow still: But I
Shall never see her face.

The Unrealized Ideal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.

"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel,
Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life.

What an arm—what a waist
For an arm!

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