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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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – 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
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Butterflies

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov

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Butterflies

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

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Butterflies

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb

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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still dont see girls playing guitars and having success with it. – Joan Jett

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