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My humour is to consider the form as much as the substance, and the barrister as much as his case,
Precursor of Marshall McLuhan?
When asked what kind of wine he thought best, Diogenes replied, ‘Someone else’s’
The gods use us for games of tennis, knocking us about in numerous ways. Enimvero Dii nos homines quasi pilas habent. [To the gods we are indeed like balls to play with.]49 The stars fatally decreed that the Roman State should be the example of what they can achieve in this category,
This must be the source of John Webster's "We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them." (Duchess of Malfi)
What can happen when you have to make an harangue on which your life depends!
Same issue with polygraphs - stress does not prove lying.
a wife should not have her eyes so hungrily fixed on her husband’s foreparts that when the need arises she cannot bear to see his backside.
I have not seen anywhere in the world a prodigy more expressly miraculous than I am.
After all, it is to put a very high value on your surmises to roast a man alive for them.
Kings and philosophers shit: and so do ladies.
have exceeded [C] recently, by six years, that fiftieth birthday [B] which115 some peoples have not unreasonably laid down as termination of life, one so just that nobody was permitted to go beyond it:
St Augustine did have an illegitimate son. If Montaigne had read the Confessions he would have known of him.
Utters,
Should read "Letters"
Corgias,
I think you mean Gorgias!
