C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."
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Gnats
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Fred Allen
Comedian, Actor
"Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers."
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"Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast."
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"As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose."
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"Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play."
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"Television is a triumph of equipment over people."
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"We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers."
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"Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools."
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"Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable."
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"When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams."
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"Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats."
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"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
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"They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak."
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"'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied."
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"If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that."
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