Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. William Collins
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. Richard Owen
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. William Banting
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
