The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
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Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study.
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It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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