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  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Symposiacs, Book viii, Question ix...
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  a unit of measurement. "Why is /var/adm taking up so much space?...
• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will
  but hear." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red
  Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled....
• Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage.
  It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher say...
• Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage.
  It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher say...