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“Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.” quote by Plutarch — Download Open image

“Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.”

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Painting is silent poetry.

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King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like…

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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people…

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The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.…

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But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on…

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It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

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Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken…

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School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

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