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By the standards of the dim past they were appallingly ugly; but by the standards of her especial planet and her especial era they were not ugly. The… - Wasp
" "By the standards of the dim past they were appallingly ugly; but by the standards of her especial planet and her especial era they were not ugly. They were merely an individualistic aspect of the same universal thing which is named Intelligence.
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Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.
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