"It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own."

-- Louis Agassiz

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“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.”
“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”

Source : 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91
“Nature is harmony in discord.”
“Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.”
“The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.”
“Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.”
“I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.”
“To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.”

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