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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 thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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Bores
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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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Marriage
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Butterflies
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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

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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Butterflies

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

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Butterflies

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Butterflies

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