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John Aubrey has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a…
— Samuel Johnson
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The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through…
— Mel Smith
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There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and…
— Neil Gaiman
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…
— Rose George
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they…
— Boris Johnson
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its…
— Claude Monet
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene…
— Charles Lyell
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren…
— John Masefield
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