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A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his crooked way
And lost a hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.

— Sam Walter Foss

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Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.

The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.

Strew gladness on the paths of men—
You will not pass this way again.

I say the very things that make the greatest Stir
An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

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