An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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