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    Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader’s mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can’t help hitting it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    Yabba dabba do!
    —William Denby Hanna (b. 1910)

    An aspiring genius was D. Green:
    The son of a farmer, age fourteen;
    His body was long and lank and lean—
    Just right for flying, as will be seen;
    John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)