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Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, 1st Baron Avebury, PC FRS (30 April 1834 - 28 May 1913), English banker, politician, biologist and archaeologist was born the son of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

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