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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

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