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  2. Advanced Banter - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, known as If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? in the United States, is the third title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game QI, written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson. It is a book of "quite interesting" quotations.

  3. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College - Wikipedia

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    "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter.

  4. Ignorance Is Bliss - Wikipedia

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    Ignorance is bliss" may refer to: "Ignorance Is Bliss", a phrase coined by English poet Thomas Gray in his 1742 " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College " "In knowing nothing, life is most delightful" ( In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est ), a quote by Publilius Syrus

  5. The Free Lunch - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

  6. Alice: Ignorance Is Bliss - Wikipedia

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    Alice: Ignorance is Bliss is a 2014 British short documentary by Thomas McNaught.It was featured on BBC Three’s FRESH scheme. [1]The documentary was nominated for Best British Short Film [2] at the 28th Leeds International Film Festival – where it received a special mention [3] – and was shortlisted for Independent Age’s "Best Factual New Media Content" at the Older People Media Awards.

  7. Free Lunch (book) - Wikipedia

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    Free Lunch is a middle-grade memoir by Rex Ogle, published September 10, 2019, by Norton Young Readers. The book follows Ogle's middle school experience of being "a poor kid in a wealthy school district."

  8. 1747 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (full text here) Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

  9. No such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia

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    The Libersign, a political emblem of the U.S. Libertarian Party during the 1970s, features an arrow diagonally crossing the letters "TANSTAAFL". "No such thing as a free lunch" (also written as "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and sometimes called Crane's law [1]) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing.