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Old 5th May 2008 | 05:53
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Frogs:

A little off topic but relevant. It's a wake up call for the disgruntled frogs of Cathay. The frogs who managed to escape from their hometown suburban well but for some unfathomable reason wished they hadn't.

"I do not deny the happiness of a life spent beneath the shadow of the belfry of one's own home, surrounded by one's own family; but, after all, what are such joys as these compared to those of the explorer who goes forth to meet the unknown ready for all that may betide, making fresh discoveries at every turn, gladly facing all and rejoicing in the ever-changing, ever-widening horizon before him? Who would care to forego the joys of memory, the power of living over again in old age the adventures of youth, of seeing once more with the mind's eye the wonders of the far-distant lands visited when the mind was still buoyant, the sight still undimmed, the limbs still in all the vigour of manhood? Happy mortal indeed is he who, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the discoverer elects to travel this path. "

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