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NO PAINS, NO GAINS

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

If little labour, little are our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.




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Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
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    Die Schone Wittwe
    by Charles Godfrey Leland
    (DE POOTY VIDOW.) I. VOT DE YANKEE CHAP SUNG. DAT pooty liddle vidow Vot ve dosh'nt vish to name, Ish still leben on dat liddle shtreet, A doin' shoost de same.