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Selected Toasts
Here's to those I love,
Here's to those who love me,
Here's to those who love those I love.
And here's to those who love those who
love me.
Here's a toast to all who are here.
No matter where you are from;
May the best day you have ever seen
Be worse than your worst to come.
Happy are we met, happy have we been,
happy may we part, and happy meet again.
Drink to-day and drown all sorrow.
You shall perhaps not do it to-morrow.
Best while you have it use your breath.
There is no drinking after death.
Here's to a chaperone.
May she leam from Cupid
Just enough blindness to be sweetly stupid.
Hefe's to a long life, and may you live a
thousand years and I a thousand years less
one day, for I would not care to live after
you had passed away.
Friend of my soul, this goblet sip,
'Twill chase the pensive tear.
'Tis not so sweet as woman's lip,
But oh, 'Tis more sincere.
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