| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45991 |
| QUOTATION: | God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner,
No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub.
No belly and no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Crowe Ransom (18881974), U.S. poet. Survey of Literature (l. 2328). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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