Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.
• Meaning, however, is no great matter.
• Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And…
• Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...
• But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?
• But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...
• The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her…
• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.
• I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
• I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
• Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
• Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
• I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

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