“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves ”
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“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves ”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature”
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution”
“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”
“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few”
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this”
“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished”
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve”