Good To The Heels The Well-worn Slipper Feels When The Tired Player Shuffles Off The Buski

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Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
-- How not to settle it

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