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Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. Irving Berlin		Sunday Dec 22, 2024
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A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But Im damned if I see how the helican. Dixon Lanier Merritt

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	Dixon Lanier Merritt
	Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879 - 1972) was a poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association. Dixon Merritt also served as a chef in the army, where he first began writing his limericks to cheer up the soldiers. He penned this famous limerick in 1910. Read More

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A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But Im damned if I see how the helican.