It crawls on all fours as a baby, then learns to walk on two legs, and finally needs a cane in old age.
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Crawls
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It is night when a man crawls along the sidewalk near a traffic light. "Have you lost something by chance?" a passerby asked him. "Yes, a button from a shirt." "Are you sure you've lost it right here?" "No, a little further back. But here there's more light to help me find it."
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Ambition rarely moves normally. Either it comes on tiptoe or it crawls on all fours.
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Tom crawls.
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