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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Folly of Brown - By a General Agent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew a boor - a clownish card<br>(His only friends were pigs and cows and<br>The poultry of a small farmyard),<br>Who came into two hundred thousand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good fortune worked no change in BROWN,<br>Though she's a mighty social chymist;<br>He was a clown - and by a clown<br>I do not mean a pantomimist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It left him quiet, calm, and cool,<br>Though hardly knowing what a crown was -<br>You can't imagine what a fool<br>Poor rich uneducated BROWN was!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He scouted all who wished to come<br>And give him monetary schooling;<br>And I propose to give you some<br>Idea of his insensate fooling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I formed a company or two -<br>(Of course I don't know what the rest meant,<br>I formed them solely with a view<br>To help him to a sound investment).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their objects were - their only cares -<br>To justify their Boards in showing<br>A handsome dividend on shares<br>And keep their good promoter going.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no - the lout sticks to his brass,<br>Though shares at par I freely proffer:<br>Yet - will it be believed? - the ass<br>Declines, with thanks, my well-meant offer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He adds, with bumpkin's stolid grin<br>(A weakly intellect denoting),<br>He'd rather not invest it in<br>A company of my promoting!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You have two hundred 'thou' or more,&quot;<br>Said I. &quot;You'll waste it, lose it, lend it;<br>Come, take my furnished second floor,<br>I'll gladly show you how to spend it.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But will it be believed that he,<br>With grin upon his face of poppy,<br>Declined my aid, while thanking me<br>For what he called my &quot;philanthroppy&quot;?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some blind, suspicious fools rejoice<br>In doubting friends who wouldn't harm them;<br>They will not hear the charmer's voice,<br>However wisely he may charm them!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I showed him that his coat, all dust,<br>Top boots and cords provoked compassion,<br>And proved that men of station must<br>Conform to the decrees of fashion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I showed him where to buy his hat<br>To coat him, trouser him, and boot him;<br>But no - he wouldn't hear of that -<br>&quot;He didn't think the style would suit him!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I offered him a county seat,<br>And made no end of an oration;<br>I made it certainty complete,<br>And introduced the deputation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no - the clown my prospect blights -<br>(The worth of birth it surely teaches!)<br>&quot;Why should I want to spend my nights<br>In Parliament, a-making speeches?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I haven't never been to school -<br>I ain't had not no eddication -<br>And I should surely be a fool<br>To publish that to all the nation!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I offered him a trotting horse -<br>No hack had ever trotted faster -<br>I also offered him, of course,<br>A rare and curious &quot;old master.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I offered to procure him weeds -<br>Wines fit for one in his position -<br>But, though an ass in all his deeds,<br>He'd learnt the meaning of &quot;commission.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He called me &quot;thief&quot; the other day,<br>And daily from his door he thrusts me;<br>Much more of this, and soon I may<br>Begin to think that BROWN mistrusts me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So deaf to all sound Reason's rule<br>This poor uneducated clown is,<br>You canNOT fancy what a fool<br>Poor rich uneducated BROWN is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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