<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sires And Sons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land<br>With difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand!<br>Then dies the State!-and, in its carcass found,<br>The millionaires, all maggot-like, abound.<br>Alas! was it for this that Warren died,<br>And Arnold sold himself to t' other side,<br>Stark piled at Bennington his British dead,<br>And Gates at Camden, Lee at Monmouth, fled?<br>For this that Perry did the foeman fleece,<br>And Hull surrender to preserve the peace?<br>Degenerate countrymen, renounce, I pray,<br>The slothful ease, the luxury, the gay<br>And gallant trappings of this idle life,<br>And be more fit for one another's wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342905" data-title="Sires And Sons de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land With difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand! Then dies the State!-and, in its carcass found, The millionaires, all maggot-like, abound. Alas! was it for this that Warren died, And Arnold sold himself to t' o..."></div> </div> </div>

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