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Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really lik

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Experience
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight. – Chinese Proverb

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Seagulls… slim yachts of the element. – Robinson Jeffers

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Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks. – Terri Guillemets

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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. – Izaak Walton

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I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. – Elizabeth I

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith

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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. – James Buchan

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