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It was all 'leather or prunello, as she said to herself; it was all vanity, and vanity, and vanity! What real enjoyment had she found in anything? She had only taught herself to believe that some day something would come which she would like; but she had never as yet in truth found anything to like. It had all been in anticipation, but now even her anticipations were at an end.
"'Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunello."
One place was the same to them as another, and it was necessary that they should at any rate exist until the term had expired for which they had let their house. Mrs. Holt had I think enjoyed her life. She had been made more of than at home, and had been happy amidst the excitement. But with Cecilia it had been for many months as though all things had been made of leather and prunello.
In England this was all voted "leather and prunello" and a mere vapouring opinion of the Emperor's, but as far as I could observe he was perfectly right, and had the governor been acting under my orders I question much whether I should not have hanged him.
"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunello." 'Oh, but that's not fair that's Pope! It's not original, Dudgeon. Understand me, said I, wringing his breast-button, 'the first duty of all poetry is to be mine, sir mine.
In this manufacture the relations of employers with employed, and amongst each other, would appear to be particularly happy. The morocco-makers of Wilmington seem to believe that worth makes the man, that readiness to do a favor to fellow-manufacturers is what shows the true "grain," and that "the rest is naught but leather and prunello." In dealing with their men, Messrs.
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