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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.

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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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