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• LISP: To call a spade a thpade.
• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander (292 BC)
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....
• Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• OLD FARMERS never die, they just spade away.
• There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good
  understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither....