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Jean Henri Fabre

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I have made it a rule to adopt the method of ignorance in my investigations into instincts. I read very little. ... I know nothing. So much the better : my queries will be all the freer, now in this direction, now in the opposite, according to the lights obtained.
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In 'The Languedocian Scorpion'

 
Jean Henri Fabre

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