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Flight is just momentary escape from the eternal custody of earth.
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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
October 26, 1902
Died:
August 3, 1986
(aged 83)
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