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Quote by Joseph Conrad
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits st

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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

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

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Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

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We learn by teaching. – Proverb

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I dont take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. – Robert Carlyle

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Forever is a long bargain. – Proverb

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With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. – Attributed to Henry S. Haskins

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