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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity. Mary Somerville		Sunday Aug 16, 2026
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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.