No wonder honesty’s a lasting article,
Seeing that people seldom use a particle.
From: Borrow, George, Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard Snarenswayne and Other Ballads, 1913, Private Circulation: London, p. 27.
(https://archive.org/details/balladsotherpoem14borrrich)
Date: 1913 (published)
By: George Henry Borrow (1803-1881)
From Troubles of The World 