“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
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Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.”
— Plutarch
Symposiacs, book viii. Question IX
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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