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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
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"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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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."
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"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"
Faith

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
Family

"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
Simplicity

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
Literature

"Superstition is the poetry of life."
Life

"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
Perception

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
Love

"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."
Emotion

"A useless life is an early death."
Death

"National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
Conflict
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