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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles…

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…

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we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness… — Thomas Jefferson
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals… — Ambrose Bierce
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Botany is based on fixed genera. — Carl Linnaeus
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Unknown Author
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. — Unknown Author
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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