Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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