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   than winds astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagoean   
   maxim)." This is not the Pythagorean Theorem, but the best-known   
   maxim he promoted in his philosophy: Do not eat beans. (Yes,   
   friends, even Melville made fart jokes!)  [-ecl]   
      
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                         Mark Leeper   
                         mleeper@optonline.net   
      
      
              All truth is not to be told at all times.   
   				            --Samuel Butler   
      
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