Oh! Kitty Malone–Mrs. Merdle ’tis now–
Was there ever on earth than this, greater folly?
Still gorging, while groaning, and swearing a vow,
That yours is a case of most sad melancholy.
With table that Croesus never had but might covet,
You live but to eat and to eat ’cause you love it;
And yet while you swallow great sirloins of meat
Complain like a beggar of nothing to eat.
(Horatio Alger Jr)
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