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Date: 1783

"Nature has been very bountiful to you, and has given you a very good
corporeal standing dish, but the mental tureen is furnished but meager;
owing, I suppose, to the want of brains at the head of the table"

— Johnson, Theophilus

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.