butterfly-fanciers

Updated: July 27, 2025

But still so it is that tours in search of the picturesque are peculiarly apt to break up in quarrels. Perhaps on the same principle which has caused a fact generally noticed, viz. that conchologists, butterfly-fanciers, &c., are unusually prone to commit felonies, because too little of a human interest circulates through their arid pursuits.

Thomas De Quincey - Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2