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A Chinese proverb observes that knowledge that is not replenished diminishes every day.

There is a Zanzibar proverb which states that wealth diminishes with usage, whereas learning increases with use.

La Rochefoucald once noted that absence diminishes small loves, and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle, and fans the bonfire.

There is a Zanzibar proverb which states that wealth diminishes with usage, whereas learning increases with use.

Removing an olive pit diminishes the flavor of the olive.

In his famous poem, John Donne wrote, "Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

" There is a Zanzibar proverb which states that wealth diminishes with usage, whereas learning increases with use.

To cement together also the two surfaces of the glass diminishes by very nearly half the loss of light from reflection, which is considerable at the numerous surfaces of a combination.

As the spores approach maturity, the connection between their contents and the contents of the basidia diminishes and ultimately ceases.

The spore in germinating empties itself of its plastic contents, contracts, and diminishes in size.

The four sporules so engendered exhaust all the protoplasm at first contained in the generative cell, so that their united capacity proves to be evidently much insufficient to contain it, the more so as it leads to the belief that this matter undergoes as it condenses an elaboration which diminishes its size.

Its mass is 332,000 times that of the Earth, but to compare it with the attraction of the Earth’s surface we must divide by (109•4)2, since the distance of the Sun’s centre from its surface is 109•4 times as great as the corresponding distance in the case of the Earth, and the force of gravity diminishes as the square of the increased distance.

Abbot’s most recent determination of the solar constant diminishes these estimates by one third; but he still gives the probable temperature of the solar surface as not far short of 7000 degrees Centigrade, or about 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mayow proved that the air wherein a substance is burnt, or an animal breathes, diminishes in volume during the burning, or the breathing.

The effect of seasoning instead of increasing the range, diminishes it, by dulling the finer perception of flavours.

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