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Actor
Jests Home
A MEMBER of one of the dramatic funds was complaining of being obliged
to retire from the stage with an income of only one hundred and fifty
pounds a year, upon which an old officer, on half-pay, said to him: A
comedian has no reason to complain, whilst a man like me, crippled with
wounds, is content with half that sum.--What! replied the actor; and
do you reckon as nothing the honor of being able to say so?
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