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  It at last grew so small, He knew nothing at all, And now he's a College Professor....
• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity.
  Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull....
• No good man ever grew rich all at once. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 837
• Once there was this conductor see, who had a bass problem.
  You see, during a portion of Beethovan's Ninth Symphony in which there are no bass violin parts, one of the bassists always passed a bottle of scotch around....
• No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff -- He grew so fast no plotting pack could shrink him far enough.
  Compiles and simulations grew so quickly tame And swapped out all their data space when Puff pushed his stack frame....
• No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff -- He grew so fast no plotting pack could shrink him far enough.
  Compiles and simulations grew so quickly tame And swapped out all their data space when Puff pushed his stack frame....
• Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this that he knew nothing yet.
  -- MRS. APHRA BEHN...