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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

by Leonardo da Vinci

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The Grasshopper.

This silences the cuckoo with its song. It dies in oil and revives in vinegar. It sings in the greatest heats

The Bat.

The more light there is the blinder this creature becomes; as those who gaze most at the sun become most dazzled.—For Vice, that cannot remain where Virtue appears.

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