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Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Quotes: Butterflies are not insects, ' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
         

Butterflies are not insects, ' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.


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