ANIMAL

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1. Group struggles to the death between animals of the same species, such as occur in human warfare, can hardly be found among nonhuman animals.—W. C. ALLEE, The Social Life of Animals

2. Men are kinder to animals, on the whole, than they are to their fellows. They select them more wisely, they fit their work more to their shoulders. They do not mistakenly stimulate the beast's discontent .. . they keep every beast in its place—they do not encourage their sheep to yearn, but to grow wool.—CLARENCE DAY

3. Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.—GEORGE ELIOT

4. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind—it is only the difference in the victim.—LAMARTINE

5. They rejoice each with their kind, lion with lioness, so fitly them in pairs thou hast combined.—MILTON

6. Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.—PLUTARCH

7. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.—POE, The Black Cat

8. There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not his soul.—RUSKIN

9. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself