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On 5/25/2025 5:56 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>           Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and
>            nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
>                                            --Anonymous

To you or the toad. --Niven's restatement
Well, most of the time, anyway. . . --programmer's caveat to Niven's 
restatement

QI believes that the statement evolved from a quotation written by a 
famously witty French writer named Nicolas Chamfort who socialized with 
the aristocracy but supported the French Revolution. Chamfort’s 
collected works were published in French in the 1790s, and a memorably 
caustic remark about high-society was included. The words were actually 
credited to a person named Mr. de Lassay who functioned as a mouthpiece 
for Chamfort.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/03/eat-frog/