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  • Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Deuteronomy 32:15.

  • The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

    - Samuel Butler
      The Way of  All Flesh, ch.34.

  • I'm as thick as a plank.

    - Princess of Wales Diana
    Remark quoted in Sunday Today, 25  Jan1987.

  • Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.

    -John Dryden
    Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.2, l.412^17.

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