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Moving the World

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Give me where to stand, and I will move the world. So said Archimeʹdes of Syracuse; and the instrument he would have used is the lever.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mouse, Mousie
Mouse Tower (The)
Moussa
Moussali
Mouth
Mouth Waters
Moutons
Movable
Moving the Adjournment of the House
Moving the Previous Question
Moving the World
Mow, a heap, and Mow
Mowis
Mozaide
Much or Mudge
Much Ado about Nothing
Muciana Cautio
Mucklebackit
Mucklewrath
Mud-honey
Mudarra