Edward Burr Van

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    Flower Belle! What a euphonious appellation! Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes!
    Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)