Yeast

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Quotes

• “As I watched the beetles, those children of the sun, who, as divine Shelley says, "laden with light and odour, pass over the gleam of the living grass," I gained an Eden-glimpse of the pleasures of virtue.”

• “The spiders having been weather-bewitched the night before, had unanimously agreed to cover every brake and brier with gossamer- cradles, and never a fly to be caught in them; like Manchester cotton-spinners madly glutting the markets in the teeth of 'no demand.'”

• “Blest pity! true mother of that graceless scamp, young Love, who is ashamed of his real pedigree, and swears to this day that he is the child of Venus!--the coxcomb!”

More by Charles Kingsley

• Madam How and Lady WhyMadam How and Lady Why1870
• Discipline, and Other SermonsDiscipline, and Other Sermons1868
• The Roman and the TeutonThe Roman and the Teuton1864
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• Two Years AgoTwo Years Ago1857
• The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My ChildrenThe Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children1856