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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

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But what is woman?—only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.

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Five minutes — Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime!

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The common events of this little dirty world are not worth talking about, unless you embellish them!

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Hannah Cowley

Hannah Cowley

Born: March 14, 1743
Died: March 11, 1809 (aged 65)
Bio: Hannah Cowley was an English dramatist and poet.
Known for:
  1. Which is the Man?: A Comedy (1783)
  2. The runaway, a comedy [by H. Cowley]. (1776)

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