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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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