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John Aubrey has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn…
— Salman Rushdie
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…
— John Aubrey
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet…
— Michael Dirda
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Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime…
— Eugene V. Debs
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The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
— Peggy Noonan
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
— William Butler Yeats
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But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other…
— Christopher Paolini
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