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Jean Henri Fabre Quote

“We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.”

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

— Jean Henri Fabre

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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

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