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«I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.»
Author: Edward Lear
(Painter, Writer)
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«As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but would be better employed in squealing.»
«Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.»
«If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.»
Author: Harold Abelson
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Computers,
Learning
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«If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.»
«A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone»
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.»
«There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.»
«Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!»
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