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Avis

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Avis: see Aviz Aviz (ävēzh`), village, Portalegre dist., central Portugal, in Alto Alentejo.
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Looking back across the seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed her manuscript, events, and the bearings of events, that were confused and veiled to her, are clear to us.
Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine; but certain it is that a lean joker is a rara avis in terris.
 
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