Samuel Foote

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.