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The speaker referenced a wonderful novel where a character named Uncle Toby gently trapped and released an irritating fly, illustrating the Golden Rule applied to nature.
there's a wonderful i think i quoted in the book in the the 18th century wonderful novel Tristram Shandie where uncle Toby who is a very abhorious great and wonderful figure has been sitting at lunch...
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The speaker referenced a wonderful novel where a character named Uncle Toby gently trapped and released an irritating fly, illustrating the Golden Rule applied to nature.
there's a wonderful i think i quoted in the book in the the 18th century wonderful novel Tristram Shandie where uncle Toby who is a very abhorious great and wonderful figure has been sitting at lunch and a fly has been buzzing around and being frightfully irritating all throughout lunch and what finally uncle Toby manages to trap that fly and then he takes it out saying dear fly i'm not going to kill you why should i live rather than you and talking to it in this gentle way he then takes it across and lets it out of the window and the narrator says that he never forgot that aspect of uncle Toby and i've got a bit like that now about flies myself i don't like to see them buzzing around or even wasps letting them out just making yourself aware you can't get fanatical about this but picking yourself aware that these things have precious life of their own