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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
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"Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again."
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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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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