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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the…
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I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
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It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in…
— Syd Barrett
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
— Saint Basil
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
— Joseph Addison
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
— Robert Benchley
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
— A. C. Benson
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