"A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?" This raised her doubts to such a pitch, She fell exhausted in the ditch Not knowing how to run."
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"The Centipede's Dilemma", in Pinafore Poems (1871); cited in Kevin Connolly and Margaret Martlew (eds.) Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations (Leicester: BPS Books, 1999) p. 220
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Katherine Craster
1841 – 1874
Katherine Craster (1841–1874) was a minor poet, best known for writing "The Centipede's Dilemma".
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