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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

Gilbert White

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Andrew Greeley Priest

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

John Selden

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

Lady Gregory Dramatist

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese Film Director

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Paul Ryan United States Representative

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

Pope Benedict Xvi

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