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Syzygy, Inexorable, Pancreatic, Phantasmagoria--anyone Who Can Use Those Four Words In One Sentence Will Never Have To Do Manual Labor.
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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria--anyone who can use those
four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
-- W. P. Kinsella
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