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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

"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."
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"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world."

"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"

"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others."

"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."

"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
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