It takes three springs to make one leap year. – The Comic Almanack
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Leap-year is, according to traditionary lore, invested with sundry privileges and immunities to the fair. – Frederick Saunders, “The Cycle of the Seasons,” Salad for the Solitary and the S
The year of the sun consisteth of three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours, wanting eleven minutes; which six hours omitted, will, in time, deprave the compute: and this was the occasion of bissextile, or leap year. – Brown, quoted by Johnson
Intercalary: Inserted out of the common order to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an intercalary day. – A Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham, founded on that of
I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm… where youre together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, you take care of this and you know. But its hard. – Ethan Hawke
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a ministers daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. – Tori Amos
