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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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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