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==Examples== *Necessity is the mother of invention. (English [[proverb]]) :Objects of comparison: relationship between mother and child, relationship between necessity and invention :''Tertium comparationis'': source, where something derives from *Woman is the [[nigger (word)|nigger]] of the world. ([[John Lennon]]) :Objects of comparison: treatment of Black people in US culture, treatment of women in global culture :''Tertium comparationis'': inhumane treatment, subjugation, [[discrimination]] *Goodbye, England's rose. ([[Elton John]] on the death of [[Princess Diana]]) :Objects of comparison: Diana; roses :''Tertium comparationis'': beauty *If they [our two souls] be two, they are two so :'''''As''''' stiff twin compasses are two; :Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show :To move, but doth, if th'other do. ::([[John Donne]]: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning") (Read the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060515033452/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/682.html whole poem].) :Objects of comparison: two souls; twin compasses :''Tertium comparationis'': a non-physical link between separate objects that causes action in one to result in action to the other.
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