May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, …

Charles Lamb
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't. ✨ Charles Lamb (1848). Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd, p.135
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't. ✨ Charles Lamb (1848). Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd, p.135

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