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• A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
• Life is one long process of getting tired. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting it's possessors into trouble of all kinds.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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• An honest God's the noblest work of man. -- Samuel Butle
• Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)