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“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale