Quotes with thimble

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

  Carolyn Wells
  American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• ring-and-thimble
• compressed
• explain
• thimble
• believe
• wouldn

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