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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. 2

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— Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt", Sorbienne (1610–1670); also used in Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison.

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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

Alexander Pope

— Canto IV, line 123.

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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

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— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto IV, line 122.

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To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

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— Tom Brown, Laconics.

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