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And where did we get this word? Old English þymel, from þuma ‘thumb’ plus the suffix el, which we also see in, for instance, handle. A handle is an implement used by and fitted to the hand; a thimble is an implement used by and fitted to the thumb. Or finger, if you prefer. Or, of course, used for its merely thymbolic value.(Sesquiotica)
Heat, Ma'am!... it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith, memoir by his daughter Lady Holland
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I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. - Ronald Reagan
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