| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8776 |
| AUTHOR: | Plutarch (A.D. 46?A.D. c. 120) |
| QUOTATION: | Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Life of Marcellus. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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