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1 " One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented. "
― Ann Taylor , Original Poems for Infant Minds (Classics of Children's Literature, 1621-1932)
2 " Not all the fine things that fine ladies possessShould teach them the poor to despise;For 'tis good manners, and not in good dress,That the truest gentility lies. "
3 " What a man soweth, the same shall he reap. "
4 " Why must I hear, in summer evenings fine,A thousand happier birds in merry choirs?And I, poor lonely I, in grief repine,Caged by these wooden walls and golden wires! "
