“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”
Robert South (1634–1716) English theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 6. Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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