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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.


Robert Hall


#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.


George Mason


#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.


Orson Scott Card


#buggers #love #pequeninos #relationships #species

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.


George Bentham


#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!


Patrice Leconte


#endangered #endangered species #generation #like #married

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#comes #earth #exists #heaven #made

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.


Hugh Lofting


#always #been #children #classify #distinct

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.


Melvin Maddocks


#both #controlled #dogs #environment #indoors

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.


Thomas Malthus


#been #equality #evidently #great #greater

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.


Alfred Marshall


#genus #land #leading #name #producer






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