Some there are …

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Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.

Leonardo Da Vinci, XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888)

The massive bulk of the Earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens ~ Nicolaus Copernicus #awesomized #warsaw #warszawa #poland #copernicus #astronomer

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Of all the preposterous a…

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville