Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle…

Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on Boxin’-Day, or Warren’s blackin’, or Rowland’s oil, or some of them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

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The elder Weller, commenting on his son’s composition of a valentine. Chapter 33.

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