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must support two or three caterpillars if I want to know the butterflies.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
“Little Warhorse,” Ernest Thompson Seton
Chloe Dalton • Raising Hare
Pent in a barbed enclosure which contains, By way of compensation, grazing-land.
Richard Wilbur • Poems Of Richard Wilbur
“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon”—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart. After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: “Four legs good, two
... See moreGeorge Orwell • Animal Farm (Classics To Go)
the coastlands wait for me,
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”