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F. Beaumont. . It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire.
F. Freiligrath. . For 'a that and 'a that. - Trotz alledem und alledem
F. G. Trafford. . Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer.
F. G. Trafford. . Our pleasures travel by express; our pains by parliamentary.
F. H. Hedge. . Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion.
F. H. Hedge. . Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
F. H. Hedge. . The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the
F. H. Hedge. . What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real.
F. Hückstädt. . Everywhere am I at home, everywhere am I known. - Überall bin ich zu Hause, / Überall bin ich bekannt
F. Jacobs. . New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered only in a clear head over a glowing heart, as the richest wines grow over the volcanoes.
 
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Quadratrix : n. A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev. James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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