#smooth

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ↗

— Jean Rhys

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