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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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Again Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Man Most People Publish Shock
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Bird Bunt Cow Feet Forward Movement Oven Quall Walk
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Can Do IT Think You
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
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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Both Favorite Fortunate Life Lucky Seem Star Tide Under
I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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August Beautiful Calm Ease Hawk Hen High Leisure Majestic Month Most Movement Noticeable Sail
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Begin Blame Discourage Else Failure Man Many Somebody Stop Times Try
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Beautiful Color Day Grow How Last Leave Light Old
The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Authority Call Compliment Creature Invest Look Mother Queen Say Superb Undount

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