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- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
- We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
- Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
- It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
- 'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
- The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
- I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
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