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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365922" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Devil Made Me Do It!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father said, advising me<br>On a winter's afternoon, <br>'If you ever sup with the devil, son, <br>Then sup with a long spoon.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He'll always try to cozen you, <br>To draw you into his schemes, <br>Whenever you're down and out, my son<br>He'll fill your head with dreams.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He'll make you feel grandiloquent, <br>With a power so sublime, <br>You'll think you're all but immortal, son<br>As you stray from the bottom line.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And slowly, slowly, he will fix<br>His hooks into your soul, <br>You'll never notice the hooks, my son<br>As you head toward your goal.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But come the day of reckoning<br>When your hens come home to roost, <br>It's - 'Sign on the dotted line…', my son, <br>Too late then for a truce! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So don't you ever sign your name, <br>That's my advice to you, <br>That parchment's never the worst of things<br>The Devil has plans to do.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He has a place set up for you<br>In his deep and dark dominions, <br>Stoking the fires of hell, my son<br>With the rest of the Devil's minions.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a year has passed since then, <br>Time tends us to forget, <br>I only thought of his words as those<br>Of some long lost vignette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then I started a business up<br>In a modest little shop, <br>With fishing tackle and bait, it boomed, <br>I thought it would never stop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The profits soared, I built a store<br>So large, grandiloquent, <br>My rivals slandered me more and more<br>In terms quite eloquent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw them off, I bought them out<br>I started a fishing chain, <br>Both Lord and Emperor now I felt<br>Surveying my own domain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then a salesman came to call<br>Who looked at me long and hard, <br>He shuffled up to the counter, then, <br>And pulled out his calling card.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A. Lucifer & Assoc.', it said, <br>'Fishhooks, Sinkers & Line'.<br>He reached in his pocket and spilled them out<br>Hooks large and small, and fine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We're far the biggest and best, ' he said, <br>We cater for every whim…'<br>But then he stopped as he saw my face<br>Turn grey, while glaring at him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We have accounts, ' he muttered, and then, <br>'You don't have to pay, old son.<br>Just sign on the dotted line just here…'<br>But I'd reached for my Elephant Gun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grabbed his collar, I tweaked his nose, <br>Stuck all those hooks in his pants, <br>Then dragged him off to the goldfish pool<br>To watch the Devil recant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You're not going to get your hooks in me, <br>Old Nick, ' I raved at the wall, <br>But he lay splashing about, neck deep<br>Right under the waterfall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So that, your Honor, is why I'm here, <br>The police locked me up in a cell, <br>I was only protecting my soul, m'lud, <br>From Lucifer's hooks, and Hell.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Devil, he made me do it, m'lud, <br>Old Beezlebub, there in the court, <br>I shouldn't be here in the dock today<br>If the Devil could only be bought.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He offered to sell me my freedom, sir, <br>Just sign, and he wouldn't sue…<br>I'd rather spend time in a prison cell, <br>But I guess… that's up to you! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4 March 2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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On a winter's afternoon, 
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Then sup with a long spoon.'

'He'll always try to cozen you, 
To draw you into his schemes, 
Whenever you're down and out, my son
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