After blowing your nose: You should not open your handkerchief and look inside, as if pearls or rubies might have descended from your brain. —Giovanni Della Casa, Galateo (1558)
From Arielle Saiber’s survey of Italian Renaissance advice manuals, in Cabinet magazine.
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I check for gold. If I don’t find much, I dig for more.
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inothernews reblogged this from mercurypdx and added:
Fuck that. I check for pearls and rubies.
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