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Insects, indeed, appear to have been nature's favorite productions, in which to manifest her power and skill, she has combined and concentrated almost all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children.

William F. Kirby

The butterfly, adorned with every beauty and every grace, borne by radiant wings through the fields of ether, and extracting nectar from every flower, gives us some idea of the blessed inhabitants of happier worlds, of angels, and of the spirits of the just arrived at their state of perfection.

William F. Kirby

William F. Kirby

William F. Kirby

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Born: November 16, 1867

Died: July 26, 1934 (aged 66)

Bio: William Fosgate Kirby was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1916 to 1921.

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