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• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. -- Murphy's Law Corollary 5
• Brother against brother!... Friend against friend!
  ! DENTIST against DENTIST!!!" -- Things go from bad to worse in FLAMING CARROT...
• Things are not as bad as they seem - they're worse.