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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. -
Joseph Addison
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats. -
Woody Allen
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. -
Aristotle
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Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. -
Pierre De Beaumarchais
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An eagle does not catch flies. -
Proverb
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. -
Confucius
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. -
Victor Hugo
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. -
Russell Hoban
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The better I know men the more I admire dogs. -
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -
Voltaire
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They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. -
Walt Whitman
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Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me. -
Edward Hoagland
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. -
Edward Hoagland
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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. -
Georg Hegel
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The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife. -
St Francis De Sales
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Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. -
Victor Hugo
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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. -
Denis Diderot
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