"The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science."

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Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413

Henry Walter Bates

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“This one time I made love on the back seat of a car and the police came and shined his light on me, and I said I'm strokin'. That's what I'm doing, I be strokin'.”
“I've always just done things that come naturally, and that's always been surrounding myself with artists that I respect and that are way better at what they do than at what I do. I've worked my ***** off to earn the right to get a shot.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.”
“I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.”
“I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.”
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

Source : Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics
“Obedience allows Godâ€™s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.”

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