Miss Carrie Tubb, the famous soprano, writes:--

"Butt me no butts. Though carping critics flout us, What would

Diogenes have done without us?"

A distinguished actor gives as his favourite quotation the couplet from

Goldsmith:--

"A man he was financially unique, And passing poor on forty pounds

a week."

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