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“I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.” quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr — Download Open image

“I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.”

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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

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