XIV. The Mooch o' Life
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"Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends."
— C. J. Dennis
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends."" in the context of "XIV. The Mooch o' Life" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "C. J. Dennis" (Quotes, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke)
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About C. J. Dennis
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin".
About C. J. Dennis
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin".
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