Shoemaking

A cobbler, * * * produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.

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To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."

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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

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Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong,Your sonnets sure shall please—perhaps your shoes.

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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

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Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feetYou'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

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I was not made of common calf,To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.

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Marry because you have drank with the king,Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.

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As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.

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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

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The wearer knows where the shoe wrings.

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A careless shoe string, in whose tieI see a wilde civility.

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Cinderella's lefts and rights Until now.

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Oh, where did hunter win For my sweet.

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The fairy stitching gleams And these toes.

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But from the hoop's bewitching round,Her very shoe has power to wound.

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* * * And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

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Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, Was at his trade more clever.

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What trade are you?Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.

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What trade art thou? answer me directly. A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed sir, a mender of bad soles.

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Thou art a cobbler, art thou? Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: * * * I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes.

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Wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work.

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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.

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Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, Whose gentle fingers bound it!

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