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Quote by Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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Butterflies are self propelled flowers. – R.H. Heinlein

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Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. – Jeffrey Glassberg

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Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

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I don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry

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Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. – Christine Gregoire

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