"Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude."
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Published as "The Sum of Life" in The Western Medical Reporter (February 1893), p. 48 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nfUaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Nothing+to+breathe+but+air+Quick+as+a+flash%22+%22gone+Nowhere+to+fall+but+off+Nowhere+to+stand+but+on%22&pg=PA225#v=onepage
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Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
1857 – 1894
Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (March 17, 1857 – 1894) was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards.
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