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Fables for the Fair
"Not by a Great Deal!" said the Author, Decidedly. "Why do we Want her?"
"Why!" exclaimed the Friend, "Don't you want to Marry her?"
"You Precious little Idiot!" said the Author. "Do you Imagine that A Man Marries a Portfolio? Now don't Cry, or you'll make your Lovely Eyes all Red."
This teaches us that All the World's Not the Stage.
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