Thank you! I'll certainly give credit. I'm just going to borrow the one, though. For some reason I like the word "ironmongery," and the idea of a sartorial aspect to ironmongery, doubly so.
"I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for."
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"I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for."
As Dickens says.