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Literature | First Stroke is Half the Battle "Well begun is half done." "A good lather is half the shave." Latin: "Incipe: dimidium facti est coepisse. (Ausonius.) "Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet." (Horace.) French: "Barbe bien savonné est à moitié faite. Heureux commencement est la moitié English fish. A loose fish. One of loose or dissolute habits. Fish implying a human being is derogatory, but bird is a loving term, as my "bonny bird," etc. Beast is most reproachful, as "You are a beast." A pretty kettle of fish. (See Kittle.) A queer fish. An eccentric person. (See above, Loose Fish.) All is fish that comes to my net. "Auri bonus est odor ex re qualibet." I am willing to deal in anything out of which I can make a profit. I turn everything to some use. "Al is fishe that cometh to the net." - G. Gascoigne:The Steele Glas (died 1577). He eats no fish; he is not a papist; he is an honest man, and one to be trusted. In the reign of Elizabeth papists were opposed to the Government, and Protestants, to show their loyalty, refused to eat fish on Fridays to show they were not papists. "I do profess ... to serve him truly and to eat no fish." - Shakespeare: King Lear, i. 4. I have other fish to fry; "J'ai bien d'autres affaires on tête;" "Aliud mihi est agendum;" I am busy and cannot attend to [that] now; I have other matters to attend to. Mute as a fish. Fish have no language like birds, beasts, and insects. Their utmost power of sound is a feeble cry of pain, the result of intestinal respiration. The French also say "mute comme un poisson." The best fish smell when they are three days old; "l'hôte et le poisson puent passé trois jours." "Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, lest he get weary of thee, and so hate thee" (Prov. xxv. 17). "Don't outstay your welcome." The best fish swim near the bottom. "Le meilleur poisson nage pr&etrave;s du fond. " What is most commercially valuable is not to be found on the surface of the earth, nor is anything else really valuable to be obtained without trouble. "Il faut casser le noyau pour en avoir l'amande, " for "Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus. " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 52 53 54 53 54 52 4F 4B 45 49 53 48 41 4C 46 54 48 45 42 41 54 54 4C 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01010010 01010011 01010100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 00100000 01001001 01010011 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I R S T   S T R O K E   I S   H A L F   T H E   B A T T L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0052 0053 0054 0053 0054 0052 004F 004B 0045 0049 0053 0048 0041 004C 0046 0054 0048 0045 0042 0041 0054 0054 004C 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)404352535425354524945392435324235464025442392363554544639 |
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