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Pedagogical Grook

by Piet Hein

Piet Hein

for Mogens Lorentzen

Taking fun
as simply fun
and sternly
taking sternness
such a one
has not discerned
just which is which
in earnest.




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Life is half spent before we know what it is.

• George Herbert



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    nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could