"Really and truly—I’ve nothing to wear."
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People from New York (state)Satirists from the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesPoets from the United States
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Nothing to Wear (1857), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th ed. (1919).
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William Allen Butler
William Allen Butler (February 20, 1825 – September 9, 1902) was an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires.
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