And Thus They Give The Time, That Nature Meant For Peaceful Sleep And Meditative Snores, To Ceaseless Din And Mindless Merriment And Waste Of Shoes And Floors.

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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
-- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98),
-- English writer, mathematician
-- Four Riddles, no. 1 (1869)

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