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Jean Henri Fabre
French
Author
About the author
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean Henri Fabre,
French
Author
#Will
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,
French
Author
#Feeling
#Ignorance
#Learning
#Sincerity
#Absence
#Merit
#Appearance
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Jean Henri Fabre,
French
Author
#People
#Past
#Present
#Memory
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,
French
Author
#First
#Bees
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
Jean Henri Fabre,
French
Author