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> [“Sad as it is, we cannot conceal the fact that in spite of our companionship with flowers we have not risen very far above the brute. Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will soon show his teeth. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kakuz-okakura/sad-as-it-is-we-cannot-conceal-the-fact-that-in-spite-of-our/)

[Kakuzō Okakura](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kakuz-okakura/)

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> [“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/okakura-kakuzo/one-altar-forever-is-preserved-that-whereon-we-burn-incense-to-the/)

[Okakura Kakuzo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/okakura-kakuzo/)

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