Distinguished Public Service

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    Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.”
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    Finally, your lengthy service ended,
    Lay your weariness beneath my laurel tree.
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