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- Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
- Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too…
- We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without…
- We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone…
- Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from…
- Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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