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Most parents never look higher for their sons than to see them delving like muckworms for money; or hopping about like jay-birds, in fine feathers.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke

This answered a very good purpose; it checked the monopolizers and muckworms that infested our ship, and fattened on our wastefulness.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

Let muckworms, who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel.

From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles