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I read somewhere that banging your head against a wall can burn up to 150 calories per hour, but I think I'd rather take up jogging.
And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall.
--Banging My Head Against a Wall in Portland Dear Bang, Prudie is reminded of the delicious Dorothy Parker remark "She has put all her eggs in one bastard.
"It seems it's no use knocking one's head against a wall!" he said, coming from the window and giving Rostov a large envelope.
In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.
in his; neither is the Effect of rational Propositions of any Moment in this Case: For we don't say that Man wants Reason, who avoids or chuses any thing that is agreeable or detrimental to his Nature, from his Knowledge of its Properties immediately by Sensation, any more than another who avoids or chuses the same Thing, because, from a long Train of Examinations into the Nature of Beings, their Effects, Modes and Properties, he is sensible why such a Thing is agreeable or detrimental to his Nature. [Page 53] The Philosopher will not run his Head against a Wall, because he is sensible of the Motion and Properties of Matter, and the Construction of his own Organs, Fibres, &c. by which Knowledge he is sensible he shall feel Pain by such an Action.
A Man that is no Philosopher, will not run his Head against a Wall, because, tho' he knows nothing at all concerning the Properties of Matter, or the Construction of himself, yet he knows, by the Means of Sensation, and the rational Conclusions he of necessity draws from those Sensations, that such an Action will hurt him.
Now for some Reason or other, a Horse will not run his Head against a Wall, any sooner than a Man or a Philosopher.
I'll get the money back from him, and go myself, if so be it must be so, into the militia--so I will.' The attorney did not expect such a determination, and he represented, in a friendly, hypocritical tone to Price, that he had no wish to drive him to such an extremity; that it would be the height of folly in him _to run his head against a wall for no purpose_. 'You don't mean to take the corner into your own garden, do you, Price?' said he. 'I,' said the farmer, 'God forbid! it's none of mine; I never take what does not belong to me.' 'True, right, very proper, of course,' said Mr. Case; 'but then you have no interest in life in the land in question?' 'None.' 'Then why so stiff about it, Price?
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