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The Constitution of the United States is that part of the book at the end
which nobody reads.

And here she rises once more and untimely. There should be a
limit to public-school instruction; it cannot be wise or well to let the
young find out everything:

Congress is divided into civilized half civilized and savage.

Here are some results of study in music and oratory:

An interval in music is the distance on the keyboard from one piano to
the next.
A rest means you are not to sing it.
Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another.

The chapter on “Physiology” contains much that ought not to be
lost to science:

Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry.
Occupations which are injurious to health are carbolic acid gas which is
impure blood.
We have an upper and a lower skin. The lower skin moves all the time
and the upper skin moves when we do.
The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious
tissue.
The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body.
The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking.
The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart
where it meets the oxygen and is purified.
The salivary glands are used to salivate the body.
In the stomach starch is changed to cane sugar and cane sugar to sugar
cane.
The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is developed into
the special sense of hearing.
The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to
the stomach.
If we were on a railroad track and a train was coming the train would
deafen our ears so that we couldn’t see to get off the track.

If, up to this point, none of my quotations have added flavor to
the Johnsonian anecdote at the head of this article, let us make
another attempt:

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