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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wonders of the One Pound Note</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brothers!<br>You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a 'quid,' and <br> you with a solid bank balance, and sundry others;<br>Let not the cares of money e'er oppress you.<br>Today I would address you<br>Upon the wonders of the one pound note<br>And in the words that someone one day wrote<br>Across its face,<br>I trust my words will not be out of place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you e'er given our pound note a glance -<br>When you have had a chance?<br>Artistic, ain't it?<br>I wonder what aesthete they got to paint it?<br>Doesn't its face attract you, and its smile<br>Lure you to love and fondle it a while -<br>The brief while that 'tis with you? Don't you feel<br>It has a certain - shall we say - appeal?<br>And, have you ever<br>Marvelled at all that intricate and clever -<br>That wonderful arrangement of the 'ones'<br>That pop up in tne most unexpected places?<br>There are so many there<br>That, just to count them, makes you feel almost a millionaire.<br>And have you ever noticed how its face is<br>Adorned with divers writings in quaint style?<br>Brothers; those writing often make me smile.<br>Is it indeed a sin to copy such?<br>It doesn't matter much.<br>But, as a writer, I'm interested in the subject, and up to the time those few <br> lines were indited<br>I've never heard that note was copyrighted.<br>But, still, why need we quarrel<br>About that matter? But what I have been trying to say all this time is that I <br> consider that the pound note, beloved though it be by all classes of the <br> community, is, in some senses, highly immoral<br>For why?<br>It tells a lie.<br>What does it say?<br>'I (the Commonwealth treasurer) promise to pay<br>'One pound in gold' -<br>(Oh brothers! How can such vain things be told?)<br>'Upon demand' (he prints DEMAND in 'caps.')<br>But will he pay? . . Perhaps!<br>Why, brothers? Why?<br>Go up and try,<br>Go up into the lordly treasuree<br>And ask to see<br>The Treasurer, and there and then unfold<br>The tale of your dire need for gold.<br>The man won't dare to look you in the face.<br>Demand (as he invites you to), insist, reason, argue, shout, yell your demand <br> at him, and he'll probably have you kicked out of the place.<br>Now, brothers, is that fair?<br>I know there was a catch in there somewhere.<br>So next time that you Bills and Bens, and Hals and Toms amd Dicks and Timothys <br> and Thomases<br>Kid yourselves that you are well off, consider, it is not wealth, splosh, <br> spondulicks, brass, beans, dough that you possess; but merely a pocketful of <br> worthless promises.<br>The man won't recognise that note: he hates it;<br>Yet gaols the flatterer who imitates it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a 'quid,' and 
 you with a solid bank balance, and sundry others;
Let not the cares of money e'er oppress you.
Today I would address you
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