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Ever need a fact or quotation on "gouts"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "gouts," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "gouts," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "gouts," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Familiar Quotations

Gouts

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have all died of gout.–Thomas Sydenham

Gouts – "Taste"

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.–Joseph Addison

Good taste is boundless, while bad taste knows no bounds.–Anonymous

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.–W. H. Auden

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.–J. G. Ballard

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.–Bill Bradley

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.–Cyril Connolly

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.–Salvador Dali

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.–Isaac Disraeli

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.–Francis Fenelon

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Gouts 1
• Gouts – "Taste" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Gouts 3
• Gouts – "Attack" 13
• Gouts – "Blood" 14
• Gouts – "Days" 14
• Gouts – "Father's" 15
• Gouts – "Feet" 16
• Gouts – "Few" 17
• Gouts – "Fit" 17
• Gouts – "Great" 18
• Gouts – "Hard" 18
• Gouts – "Having" 19
• Gouts – "Head" 19
• Gouts – "Health" 20
• Gouts – "Heard" 20
• Gouts – "Hopes" 21
• Gouts – "Laid" 22
• Gouts – "Little" 22
• Gouts – "Lord" 22
• Gouts – "Man" 23
• Gouts – "Old" 24
• Gouts – "Once" 25
• Gouts – "Pain" 26
• Gouts – "Pen" 26
• Gouts – "Pitt" 27
• Gouts – "Queen's" 27
• Gouts – "Rheumatism" 28
• Gouts – "Rich" 29
• Gouts – "Sir" 29
• Gouts – "Soon" 30
• Gouts – "Suffering" 31
• Gouts – "Taste" 31
• Gouts – "Think" 33
• Gouts – "Years" 34
• Nonfiction Usage 35
• Bibliographic Usage 35
• Encyclopedic Usage 37
• Lexicographic Usage 39
• Index 50