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Quote by John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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Science
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John Burroughs
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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John Burroughs
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History
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Im really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson

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History

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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History

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. – Henry Louis Gates

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History

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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History

Random Quotes

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. – Emile M. Cioran

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Fear

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Writing

One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but hes not boring. – Barbara Bush

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Boredom

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

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Laughter