Gerald Durrell

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I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant

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My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood

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It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry

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In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'

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Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind