- Full Text
- Learning is an ornament
a portion never to be spent.
When land is gone and money spent,
then learning proves most excellent
- Listed on Page Number
- 267
- Sampler Worked By
- Deborah Robins
- Date of Sampler
- 1750
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 77
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- Notes
- Also used by:
Mary Ann May, April 23, 1793, n.p. p72;
Martha Greene, 1807. Coventry, RI, p165;
Mary Lippitt, 1804, Cranston, RI, p.189.
George Eliot (1819-1880) used the second verse in her book, “The Mill on the Floss”.