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“Antiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Man's Progress in Virtue.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6abdd8312b7d255adcc57af622dc7679f544366467908d3cf49b000dfdad8d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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