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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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