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will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

* The lawgiver is unknown, but the saying is an old joke among engineers. * John Dos Passes, in U.S.A., wrote an epitaph for Taylor: "On the morning of his fiftyninth birthday, when the nurse went into his room to look at him at fourthirty, he was dead with his watch in his hand."

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