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...lip, so full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENING THOUGHTS. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...lip so full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABSENCE. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...From maiden's lip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...sort of infant prodigy in the mustache business, and remember very well how my mother once sent me, when a little boy, from the dining-room back to my bedroom, to wash my upper lip. She is near-sighted, but discovered her mistake afterwards. I began soon after that to take a regular shave, at first once a month, then gradually the interval was diminished to a fortnight, a week, and finally half a week. The more I cut off the down the faster and thicker it grew; and as I am averse to all duties that have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY MUSTACHE. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

...through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does not, my last hope is blasted, and all that remains is suicide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY MUSTACHE. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

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