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1 " In the marshes the buckbean has lifted its feathery mist of flower spikes above the bed of trefoil leaves. The fimbriated flowers are a miracle of workmanship and every blossom exhibits an exquisite disorder of ragged petals finer than lace. But one needs a lens to judge of their beauty: it lies hidden from the power of our eyes, and menyanthes must have bloomed and passed a million times before there came any to perceive and salute her loveliness. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "
― Eden Phillpotts
2 " All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction. "
― Voltaire , Jeannot et Colin
3 " The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "
― Bertrand Russell
4 " When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”) "
― Erik Pevernagie
5 " The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "
