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    There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
    Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)