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| The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes men from animals. |
| by Sir William Osler |
| Success is overrated. Incompetence is what we should revere it marks us off from animals. |
| by Stephen Pile |
| I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. |
| by Walt Whitman |
| All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it. |
| by Samuel Butler |
| This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. |
| by Benito Mussolini |
| The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do! |
| by Walt Whitman |
| A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. |
| by William Temple |
| What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? |
| by William Shakespeare |
| ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. |
| by G.K. Chesterton |
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