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~All animals, except man,
know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. . . .
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-Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Ch. XIX
(cf. HUMAN NATURE : Cousteau)
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Animals can learn, but it is not by learning
that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become
what he is supposed to be.
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-Eric Hoffer
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~When you have got an
elephant by the hind leg, and he's trying to run away, it's best to let
him run.
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-Abraham Lincoln
April 14, 1865, comment to Charles A. Dana when the latter asked if he
should arrest Jacob Thompson, a fleeing rebel official.
Quoted in Darryl Lyman, ed., Civil War Quotations, 1995
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~[Butterflies are] Pretty,
fragile things with wings like church windows.
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-Grant Morrison
Doom Patrol #24,
"The House That Jack Built"
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When tweetle beetles battle with
paddles in a puddle, they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
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-Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
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~They [the animals] do
not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
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-Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass, 1855
Book III, 32
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