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  ...it to his friend.
"What is this for?" the first asked, taking the money.
"That's the fifty dollars I owe you," the other answered. "Now we're square."--_W. Dayton Wegefarth_.
WILLIS--"He calls himself a dynamo."
GILLIS--"No wonder; everything he has on is charged."--_Judge_.
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
--_Cowper_.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.   --_Bacon_.

DEER
"The deer's a mighty useful beast From Petersburg to Tennyson For while he lives he lopes around And when he's dead he's venison."
--_Ellis Parker Butler_.

DEGREES
A young theologian named Fiddle Refused to accept his degree; "For," said he, "'tis enough to be Fiddle, Without being Fiddle D.D."

DEMOCRACY
"Why are you so vexed, Irma?"
"I am so exasperated! I attended the meeting of the Social...   Bacon, Francis

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