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When we were a soft amoeba, in ages past and gone,
Ere you were Queen of Sheba, or I King Solomon,
Alone and undivided, we lived a life of sloth,
Whatever you did, I did; one dinner served for both.
Anon came separation, by fission and divorce,
A lonely pseudopodium I wandered on my course.

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Some species look like dear little sucking-pigs in plate armour.

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It has a plump, pleasant appearance, like a well-fed puppy.

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If you have a microscope and a drop or two of the right kind of dirty water you can enter a new world of interest.

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They are so plump that you feel inclined to pat them, only they are too small.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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Arthur Shipley

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Born: March 10, 1861
Died: September 22, 1927 (aged 66)
Bio: Sir Arthur Everett Shipley was an English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Known for:
  1. The Voyage of a Vice-chancellor (1919)
  2. Life: A Book for Elementary Students (1923)
  3. Pearls & Parasites (1908)
  4. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book (1901)

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