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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

Alfred Russel Wallace
Years, Tuesday, Mind
Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Alfred Russel Wallace
Bird, Bills, Herons
Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Travels on the Amazon”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

Alfred Russel Wallace
Marriage, Law, Public Opinion

Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.

Alfred Russel Wallace
Intelligent, Mars
Alfred Russel Wallace (1907). “Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

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