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/ For I swore I would stay a year away from her; out and alas! \
| but with break of day I went to make supplication.           |
\                 -- Paulus Silentarius, c. 540 A.D.           /
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According to the Fact Sphere: "Edmund Hilary, the first person to climb Mt. Everest, did so accidentally, while chasing a bird."


In the spirit of William Shakespeare: Thou art a weedy, motley-minded vassal.