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• The man who tips a shilling every time he stops for petrol is giving away annually the cost of lubricating his car.
  -- J. Paul Getty...
• What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings.
  Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling....
• The Irish Leprechaun is the Faeries' shoemaker and is known under various names in different parts of Ireland
  Cluricaune in Cork, Lurican in Kerry, Lurikeen in Kildare and Lurigadaun in Tipperary....
• A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to a fund for his funeral.
  The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate a shilling....
• Purcilious: manner in which a man holds his wife's purse in public.
• I spent last night in the arms of a girl in Louisiana.
• When President Paul Doumer of France was assassinated in Paris in 1932, newspapers differed in their versions of the event.
  This is from "Paris was Yesterday: 1925-1939" by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman....
• Bother! said Pooh, as he loaded his last round.
• Nine pence in the shilling.