"Who gives his children all his bread, And comes himself to grievous need, Shall with the club be smitten dead."
— Fathers

January 1, 1970

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Georg Büchmann, Geflügelte Worte, 19th ed., 1898 (whom see, p. 119, for the fable connected with these lines) says that they are to be found affixed to many town-gates in , side by side with a massive club for emblem.