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"Quiddity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quiddity, 'Like ghosts of defunct bodies fly - Where Truth in person does appear Like words congealed in ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... himself as a cause, a surprising intruder upon the routine of the world, an original creator. I think that he is right, and that the profitable study of a man is the study which regards him as an oddity, not a quiddity. ...
— Romance - Two Lectures • Walter Raleigh
... quiddity I've sat all day alone, apart— And all that I could hit on as a problem was—to find Analogy between a scrag of mutton and a Bony-part, Which offers slight employment to the speculative mind. For ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... and quiddity, Like ghosts of defunct bodies fly— Where Truth in person does appear Like words congealed ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson |
Words linked to "Quiddity" : nub, pith, heart and soul, inwardness, center, meat, evasion, marrow, nitty-gritty, sum, equivocation, core, centre, gist, essence, substance, kernel, heart |
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