Anthony Trollope
“They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.”

Phlogiston
(noun) Invisible fluid first proposed in 1667 to be possessed by all flammable substances and released when they burn. Antoine Lavoisier debunked the theory in 1777.

From 10/05/09


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