"Mon Repose"

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Snails are notoriously slow, but snail racing does take place. For more about snail racing visit http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AngieYee.shtml

How ingenious an animal is a snail. When it encounters a bad neighbour it takes up its house and moves away.

Philemon, Fragment. (c. 300 B.C.)