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• I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), The Celebrated Jumping Frog...
• A hundred years from now, none of us will give a damn.
• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ....
• If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), The Celebrated Jumping Frog...
• Yellow-legged frogs were once common in high-altitude lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but they have become increasingly rare.
  Trout feed on tadpoles and young frogs. Few lakes in the Sierra Nevada had any trout in them until a hundred years ago....
• In Boston, it is illegal to hold frog-jumping contests in nightclubs.