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  • Behold theturtle, itonlymakesprogresswhen it sticksits neckout.

    -Anonymous
    Favourite saying of Harvard's president  James B Conant. Quoted in  James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

  •    I see traces of the turtle soup, and venison, and gold spoon in this.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
      Mr Bounderby. Hard Times, bk.1, ch.11.

  • The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

    - (Frederic) Ogden Nash
    Hard Lines,'Autres Be"  tes,  Autres Moeurs'.

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