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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Avoidance

Dr. Charles F. Deems, the genial pastor of the Church of the Strangers, New York City, on reaching his seventieth birthday, thus briefly gave out the secret of his successful and happy life:

The world is wide
In time and tide,
And God is guide,
  Then—do not hurry.

That man is blest
Who does his best
And leaves the rest,
  Then—do not worry.

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