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True Comfort
(There is nothing quite so comforting in this life as a
word of five syllables.—Mr. W. Pett Ridge.)
Brevity! Heavens, what inefficaciousness!
Brevity! Piffle! A mere fabulosity!
Comfort is only a great ostentatiousness;
Quiet is only in vociferosity.
Brevity! Piffle! A mere fabulosity!
Comfort is only a great ostentatiousness;
Quiet is only in vociferosity.
Shortness in writing denotes adolescency,
Me for an erudite, big etymologist—
One who can tell you the true delitescency
Found in the brain of a phytopathologist.
Me for an erudite, big etymologist—
One who can tell you the true delitescency
Found in the brain of a phytopathologist.
Still, I believe that a man pharmaceutical
Seems, in a measure, to be reimbursable,
Arguing thus, it seems quite therapeutical
Voters for Taft are to be incoercible.
Seems, in a measure, to be reimbursable,
Arguing thus, it seems quite therapeutical
Voters for Taft are to be incoercible.
Which, to a mind beyond doubt algebraical,
Seems but the rankest of rank meretriciousness,
Silly and sad, not to say pharisaical;
Bless you! the thing is but old superstitiousness!
Seems but the rankest of rank meretriciousness,
Silly and sad, not to say pharisaical;
Bless you! the thing is but old superstitiousness!
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