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" Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. "

Bryant H. McGill

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" Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. "

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" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "

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" Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. "

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" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

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