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
Perfect, Absence, Least, At Least One
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
- Jean Henri Fabre
Memory, Think, Common, Common People
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
- Jean Henri Fabre
Vulgar, Which, Distinguish, Herd
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
- Jean Henri Fabre
Dig, Let Us, Our, Fields
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
Unquestionably, Offspring, Heritage
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