Edward Lear Quotes | There was an old man of Orleans, Who was give...

"There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans."

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Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

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