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    “O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
    —Jacob, Sir Astley (1579–1652)

    “I change, and so do women too;
    But I reflect—which women seldom do.
    Tobacco is a filthy weed,
    That from the devil doth proceed;
    That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
    That makes a chimney of your nose.”
    —Anonymous. “Written on a Looking Glass,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)