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Let me live in my house by the side of the road, :Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, :Wise, foolish,—so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, :Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, :And be a friend to man.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road, :Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, :Wise, foolish,—so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, :Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, :And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss (identity unresolved)

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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 379 · quotation 7 · Sam Walter Foss · House by the Side of the Road.

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