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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"My first occupation was to map the country."
Country

"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."
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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."
Trouble

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."
Death

"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
Travel

"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
Cows

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
Events

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
Work

"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."
Evil
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