"The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification."

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

Hugh Miller

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“I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures”
“Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
“Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.”
“The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.”

Source : Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.113, Macmillan
“Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.”
“An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.”
“Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?”
“When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.”

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