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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient…
Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most…
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty…
In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since…
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only…
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species…
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give…
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the…
The great workman of nature is time.
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the…

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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression — Tracy Kidder
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives… — Nick Hornby
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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