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I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.


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JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN