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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Understanding

Understandings seem perfect Solids, as dead to Wit and as insensible of Reason as if their Souls and their Bodies (according to Hobbes’s Philosophy) were both made of the same stuff and equally impenetrable.
—Robert Wolseley