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"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."
"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside."
"One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints."
"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
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