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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.

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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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