BORES
Society is now one polished horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.
L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformite.
One day ennui was born from uniformity.</poem>
That old hereditary bore,
The steward.
Again I hear that creaking step!—
He's rapping at the door!
Too well I know the boding sound
That ushers in a bore.
He says a thousand pleasant things,—
But never says "Adieu."
O, he's as tedious
As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom.
BORROWING
Great collections of books are subject to
certain accidents besides the damp, the worms,
and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of
what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend
him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for
four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me
rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some
one else to whom you may vaunt your empty
present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my
own.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
The borrower is servant to the lender.
est vertu heroicque. Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend;
to owe is a heroic virtue.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.
Richard Chenb vex Trench—The Lent Jewels.
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
Tosser—Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September's Abstract. First lines
also in June's Abstract.
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BOSTON
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| text = A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
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| text = <poem>The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
Acrooked trail as all calves do.
- * * * *
And men two centuries and a half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Sam Walter Foss—The Calf-Path.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his crooked way
And lost a hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.
Sam Walter Foss—The Calf-Path.
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar
system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston
man if you had the tire of all creation straigntened out for a crow-bar.
Holmes—Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI.
| seealso = (See also Zinckle)
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| text = <poem>A solid man of Boston;
A comfortable man with dividends,
And the first salmon and the first green peas.
