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• Worms are the intestines of the earth.

  Aristotle

  Earth, Intestines

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• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Needs, Littles

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

  Alexander Pope

  Hair, Devil, Amber

  'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 169

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• Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fishing, Advice, Cans Of Worms

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• Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Should, Teach

  Mark Twain, Bernard Taper (1963). “Mark Twain's San Francisco”, p.186, Heyday

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• In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Oysters

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49

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• Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

  Heinrich Heine

  Moving, Torches, Ifs

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.96

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• BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Physicians, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

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• ...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal

  Christopher Moore

  Girlfriend, Lilies, Abby

  Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

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• The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

  Nelson Algren

  Alcohol, Devil, Helping

  Nelson Algren (2002). “The Neon Wilderness”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Bird

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• In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

  Edwin Newman

  Sight, White, House

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.

  John M. Tyler

  Animal, Cells, Age

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• What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Book, Sea

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• For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

  Philip James Bailey

  Light, Poet, Nightingales

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.411

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• Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Joy, Barns

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.132

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.

  Michael Savage

  Dark, Years, Two

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• APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Physicians, Graves

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Dark, College, Land

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.57

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• Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

  Keith Miller

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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