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Civilization (n.) will die if competition — devil take the hindmost — really is the final system the world will see.
The Eiffel Tower (n.) is the best spot from which to view Paris, mainly because it is the only place in Paris from which you can't see the damn thing.
End of history (n.) has been announced before: in the 1880s 'Devil take the hindmost' was hailed as the final perfect system, and William Morris answered that if so, civilization would die.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (n.) is a muddle-headed metaphysician who by some strange streak of fortune turned out a few poems amongst the dreary flood of inanity that was his wont.