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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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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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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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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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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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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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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they…
— Julie Burchill
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Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is…
— Dave Barry
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
— Charles Lyell
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
— Doris Lessing
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Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars,…
— Peter Hessler
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