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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
"Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence."
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
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"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."
"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
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