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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
— George Carlin
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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…
— Mark Twain
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who…
— Bill Bryson
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination…
— Jane Austen
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
— Samuel Johnson
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Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not…
— Charlton Heston
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other…
— Charles Darwin
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Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
— Billy Graham
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
— Unknown Author
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I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality…
— Nigella Lawson
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can…
— H. L. Mencken
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