"The general knowledge of time on the island……" — John Millington Synge

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• There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously… — Walt Kelly
• It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes… — Francis Galton
• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows,… — Alan Coren
• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the… — Joseph Campbell
• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater
• Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky
• The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual… — Charles Darwin
• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the… — Natalie Babbitt
• One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or… — Carl Van Vechten
• It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on… — Joseph Conrad
• Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do… — Frederick H. Evans
• Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says… — Paul de Man

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