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From: Poetry
Date: 20060701
Author:Appleman, Philip

 
Arts & Sciences 
 
Everyone carries around in the back of his mind the wreck of a 
thing he calls his education. 
 
--Stephen Leacock 
 
   SOLID GEOMETRY 
 
   Here's a nice thought we can save: 
   The luckiest thing about sex 
   Is: you happen to be so concave 
   In the very same place I'm convex. 
 
   PHILOSOPHY: THOMAS HOBBES 
 
   Better at thinking than loving, 
   He deserved his wife's retort: 
   On their wedding night, she told him, "Tom, 
   That was nasty, brutish--and short!" 
 
   BOTANY 
 
   Your thighs always blossomed like orchids, 
   You had rose hips when we ...

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