Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many

By Harry Graham

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 27, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664609700

Harry Graham

The author is happily married and living in Pennsylvania.

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Harry Graham

Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664609700

Table of Contents

Foreword

Virtue is Its Own Reward

Enough is as Good as a Feast.

Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke.

Learn to Take Things Easily.

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.

After Dinner Sit a While; After Supper Walk a Mile.

It is Never Too Late to Mend.

A Bad Workman Complains of his Tools.

Potpourri.

Envoi.

Aftword.

FINIS.

Foreword

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The Press may pass my Verses by

With sentiments of indignation,

And say, like Greeks of old, that I

Corrupt the Youthful Generation;

I am unmoved by taunts like these—

(And so, I think, was Socrates).

Howe'er the Critics may revile,

I pick no journalistic quarrels,

Quite realizing that my Style

Makes up for any lack of Morals;

For which I feel no shred of shame—

(And Byron would have felt the same).

I don't intend a Child to read

These lines, which are not for the Young;

For, if I