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Tuesday 5 March 2019

Thing Not To Be Today: feeble.

It's rather fashionable to be feeble, but if you spend your whole life gazing in mournful victimhood at your own navel then you're going to miss a heck of a lot of good stuff:

File:We live in a beautiful world!.jpg
photo of Periyar Tiger Reserve, Thekkady, Westerns Ghats by
Prakash Damodaran

File:Beautiful trees in the world.jpg
looking up into sunshine by Vishalmannepalli

File:Newborn-Baby-Feet.jpg
photo by Evan-Amos

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=698177

File:Bee-apis.jpg
photo by Maciej A. Czyzewski

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Thing Not To Be Today: feeble.This word comes from the French feble, from the Latin flēbilis, to be lamented.



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