#quarters

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none. ↗

— Phil Condit

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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. ↗

— Carolus Linnaeus

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As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters. ↗

— Tom Metzger

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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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