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Eric Hansen _ Orchid Fever: A Horticultural
Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever."
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Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
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Alexander McCall Smith _ The Novel Habits of Happiness
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-or up, I suppose-replacing other people in the process.
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