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Oh for a book and a shady nook, either in door or out.

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To an entomological collector the rarity of a species enhances its value, to a fly-fisher, on the other hand, the frequent occurrence of a species, and its being widely dispersed, or found upon all waters, constitute the strongest reasons for preferring it.

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Devouring Ephemerals! Can you not suffer the poor insects to sport out their day? They must be insipid eating; but here are some savory exceedingly - it is needless to mention their name - that carry saucepiquante in their tails. Do try the taste of this bobber - but anyone of the three you please. There! Hold fast Kirby - for that is

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Died: 1889


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