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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeralShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 2613
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Showing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 2242
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generationShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Heredity is nothing but stored environmentShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 1811
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unbornShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 1451
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathersShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 1141
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.Showing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 615
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of courseShowing Quotes on antecedents
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Quote 420
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.Showing Quotes on antecedents
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the newShowing Quotes on antecedents
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather wasShowing Quotes on antecedents
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