Favouritism Governed Kissage, Even As It Does

On The Road To Mandalay, Where The Flyin'-fishes Play, An' The Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder Outer; China 'crost The Bay!

Literature Is A Splendid Mistress, But A Bad Wife.

Gentleman-rankers Out On The Spree, Damned From Here To Eternity.

(an Unhappy Childhood Was Not) An Unsuitable Preparation For My Future, In That It Demanded A Constant Wariness, The Habit Of Observation, And The Attendance On Moods And Tempers; The Noting Of Discrepancies Between Speech And Action; A Certain Reserve Of Demeanour; And Automatic Suspicion Of Sudden Favours.

Till The Master Of All Good Workmen Shall Set Us To Work Anew.