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John Thomas	The penis	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration	This is a famous quote attributed to Thomas Edison, a famous and prolific American inventor. The idea that hard work is the most important aspect of new inventions existed before Edison gave his quote, however.	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
according to	According to him, every person was to be bought. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
according to	Our zeal should be according to knowledge. - Thomas Sprat.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the hedgebirds raised a strain	From Thomas Hardy's poem The King's Experiment. It means small song birds in hedges were singing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)