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ATKINSON'S CASKET
Or Gems of Literature, Wit and Sentiment
Philadelphia, June, 1832One of Queen Elizabeth's proclamations, which were allowed to have all the authority of law, was to forbid her subjects from wearing their ruffs more than a quarter of a yard in width, and their rapiers more than a yard long. Officers were appointed to tear the ruffs and break the rapiers of those who transgressed the Queen's edict against them.
Praise is like ambergris; a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole turn of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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