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To flatter your way to the goad of your hope, / O plausible Mr. Perkins, / You'll need ten tons of the softest soap / And butter a thousand firkins.
The soap you could put to a better use / In washing your hands of ambition / Ere the butter's used for cooking your goose / To a beautiful brown condition.