I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
So quick bright things come to confusion.
My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.