The works of nature first ...

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.