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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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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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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. – Author Unknown

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. – Lewis Carroll

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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