• The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

  Source: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. immediately
2. universally
3. sensitive
4. noticed
5. because
6. sense

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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind. by : A. E. Housman

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