Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform. Guns, Germs And Steel
The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money. Beware of Pity
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. Mrs. Dalloway
Nothing is more uncommon than a very large or a very small man; and this applies generally to all extremes, whether of great and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul, or black and white; and whether the instances you select be man or dogs or anything else, few are the extremes,but many are in the mean between them. The Trials Of Socrates
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