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...saw. Sir Walter Scott did not mind the laughter ! He said that in nature no two scenes were really alike and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes would have the same newness in his descriptions, and show something of the richness of Nature in what he...

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...humble herbs he was examining. He replied that in Nature herself no two scenes are exactly alike, and whoever copied truly what was before his eyes would possess the same variety in his description and present an imagination as boundless as the range of nature within the scene he recorded."...