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Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.

— Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

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Published as "The Sum of Life" in The Western Medical Reporter (February 1893), p. 48

More quotes by Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

Nothing to breathe but air
Quick as a flash 'tis gone;
Nowhere to fall but off,
Nowhere to stand but on.

Nowhere to go but out,
Nowhere to come but back.

If I should die to-night
And you should come in deepest grief and woe—
And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
I might arise in my large white cravat
And say, "What's that?"

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