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"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."
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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
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