Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or flap:
“The hand I burned and whose skin is shriveled like that of a mummys is less sensitive than the other to cold or heat. My soul is the same; it passed through fire.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“Let Sporus trembleWhat? That thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of asss milk?
Satire or sense, alas, can Sporus feel,
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit neer tastes, and beauty neer enjoys:”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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