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• The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
  -- Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842) -- The Old Oaken Bucke...
• How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.
  -- Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842) -- The Old Oaken Bucke...
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), "Notebooks" 1912...
• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. Greek Proverb