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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

I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs

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Trees
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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History is the daughter of time. – Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

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[History is] petrified imagination. – Arthur Baer

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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesnt produce money. Ideas produce money. – Shimon Peres

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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. – Jacques Chirac

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We must respect the other fellows religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. – H. L. Mencken

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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. – Source Unknown

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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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