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«If a body can just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day and keep to that, I verily throw that he might leeve forever without dying at all, and that doctors and kirkyards would go oot o' fashion»
«Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.»
Author: William G. Golding
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, association, British, British people, historical, quantity, refer, the British, with sympathy
«Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.»
«Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
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Greatness
| Keywords:
graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, quantity, unusual, usual
«Eat and drink such an exact Quantity as the Constitution of thy Body allows of, in reference to the Services of the Mind.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
quantity, reference, reference to, services
«A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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digestion, lighter, quantity
«GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain --the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, edifying, gravitation, illustration, illustrations, quantity
«All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accordance, Anything Else, ease, gifts, meddled, meddles, meddling, Natural right, natural rights, occupation, produced, quantity, superior
«It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books»
«Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.»
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