“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
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Lord Dunsany 21
Irish writer and dramatist 1878–1957Related quotes
De iride (On the rainbow) Note this prediction of optical scientific instruments like the telescope and microscope, not to be utilized until 250 years later.
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“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
This seems to have been first attributed to Franklin in The New Age Magazine Vol. 66 (1958), and the earliest appearance of it yet located is in Coronet magazine, Vol. 34 (1953), p. 27, where it was attributed to a Louise Stein; it thus seems likely to have been derived from an earlier statement of Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943) : "At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package".
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