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• A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.
  -- John Wolcot (1738-1819) -- Farewell Odes, Ode iii...
• No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
  -- John Wolcot (1738-1819) -- To Kien Long, Ode iv...
• Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
• One nail drives out another. German Proverb
• A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 13
• Ned: [gets sweater caught in a nail] Ooh, looks like a loose nail.
  Homer: Yeah, one out of twenty five ain't bad! [hammers in a nail] -- "Hurricane Neddy...
• Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
  I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade....