Edward Burr Van

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    I’m saying I’m an insect who dreamed he was a man and he loved it but the dream is over and the insect is awake.
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    Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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    Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
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