"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."

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"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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"I loved psychology and I loved history."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."

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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well."

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"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."

Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician

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"Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history."

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"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history."

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"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history."

Harold Rosenberg, American Writer

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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."

Gardening

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

Numbers

"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."

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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."

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"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."

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"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."

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"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."

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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

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"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."

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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."

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