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1789·Selborne, England
A district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as by their colours and shape.
When I hear fine music I am afraid I do not enough attend to it. I cannot help stopping and filling my mind with the sweetness of the sounds.
Napoleon Bonaparte·1800All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
Mies van der Rohe·1959God is in the details.
Virginia Woolf·1927The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
