"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."
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Black Beauty
by
Anna Sewell
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham."
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Black Beauty
by
Anna Sewell
"If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits."
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The Unbearable Bassington
by
Saki
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
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Nicholas Nickleby
by
Charles Dickens
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
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Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
by
Anthony Trollope
"Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can."
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Jude the Obscure
by
Thomas Hardy
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.
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Silas Marner
by
George Eliot
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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The Parasite
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle