"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life……" — George Eliot

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• As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and… — Carl Linnaeus
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• If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of… — A A Milne
• I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing. — Fred Thompson
• You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in… — Joel Meyerowitz
• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're… — Edward Hirsch
• There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up… — Aesop
• A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity… — Brad Steiger
• So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its… — Ramakrishna
• About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar,… — Ernie Pyle

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