Edward Mayhew quotes
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“What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.”
-- Edward MayhewSource : Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10
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“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
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