"Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high."
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Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1. Compare: "My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads", Francis Bacon, Apothegms, No. 17
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Thomas Fuller
1608 – 1661
englischer Schriftsteller, Physiker und Mönch
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