It's so hot, I put everything off. Hot weather is the mother of procrastination. My energy is at ebb tide. I'm getting caloricly stupid. Tried to rea… - Thomas Edison
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It's so hot, I put everything off. Hot weather is the mother of procrastination. My energy is at ebb tide. I'm getting caloricly stupid. Tried to read some of the involved sentences in Miss Cleveland's book; mind stumbled on a ponderous perioration and fell in between two paragraphs and lay unconscious for ten minutes.
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Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the twenty-first century.
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