Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past...
Honore de Balzac
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civilization, cuvier, discoverer, discovery, feeble, fossils, genius, geology, george byron, george gordon byron
Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more...
Susan Sontag
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culture, north, north and south, northerners, perceptions, prejudice, regions, society, south, southerners