Top 100 Quotes About Man And Beast

#1. Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#2. You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

Chris Jericho

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#3. It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

Roy Fuller

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#4. Once a horse is broken to the saddle, any man can mount him", he said in a soft voice.. "Once a beast's been joined to a man, any skinchanger can slip inside of him and ride him.

George R R Martin

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#5. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.

Elizabeth Goudge

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#6. Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

William James

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#7. Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance, bears that don't.

Cormac McCarthy

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#8. When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast.

William Shakespeare

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#9. Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

George Whitefield

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#10. That man fell out of the sexy beast tree and hit every fucking branch on the way down. Sexy. Ass. Beast. I swear I've never seen someone so ridiculously good looking." I

Jillian Liota

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#11. As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#12. Pac-Man?" The beast looked up at me, oversized fangs giving it an expression that straddled the line between deadly and dopey. A string of drool waved pendulum-like from the jaw, pushing it firmly into the latter category. "When he was a puppy, he tried to eat a ghost," Pallas explained.

Jim C. Hines

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#13. Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#14. There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white ... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.

Bram Stoker

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#15. Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?

Thomm Quackenbush

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#16. Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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#17. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D.H. Lawrence

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#18. The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

John Donne

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#19. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

Richard Wagner

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#20. [Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water."
"Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale ... or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answers]

Louis L'Amour

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#21. The Set animal's jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall.
Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld!
Quiet man. I'm doing all the work.

Rick Riordan

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#22. The last thing I want to do is harm her. Especially now. She's in me. I breathed her in. I kissed her and took a good long taste. This is not just a female I enjoy. This one is so much more than that. My beast has chosen and the man seems to agree.

Lauren Dane

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#23. Feed the beast, ladies, and it'll come to you every time it's hungry. Make your man feel like he's the biggest, baddest motherfucker on earth, inside and outside of the bedroom, and he'll adore you

S.L. Jennings

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#24. The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

William Ellery Channing

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#25. Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Henry George

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#26. Man is neither angel nor beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast.

Blaise Pascal

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#27. Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#28. I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger - always a sad occasion for man or beast.

E.B. White

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#29. My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

John Fante

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#30. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Robin Hobb

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#31. Somehow he knew it, knew the beast and whatever commanded it had tracked them from the Firejack to the Badlands and back again. And, although it was just a small speck, he could have sworn he saw the swaddled man perched on the drake's back before it angled its wings and disappeared from view. -

Anthony Ryan

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#32. People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.

Michel De Montaigne

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#33. Nev was the man in the parlor and the painter in his studio, the banker and the rugby player. The boyfriend who bought her prawn crisps and rubbed her back when she cried. The tender lover. The caged beast who came out to play when they got naked together. He could be any of them.

Ruthie Knox

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#34. The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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#35. He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#36. That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Charles Dickens

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#37. Ronan's tall, broad-shouldered form cut a striking figure, and with Bowser at his side, the two of them had an almost superhero-like air about them. They were resolute and unwavering in the face of frightening and hopeless situations.
Man and beast, strong and steady.

Sara Humphreys

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#38. This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless.

Sarah J. Maas

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#39. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#40. We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

George R R Martin

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#41. A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

George MacDonald

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#42. Some poems are like the Centaurs
a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#43. For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

Al Purdy

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#44. Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

Voltaire

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#45. Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Joseph Goebbels

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#46. Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

Felix O. Hartmann

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#47. Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn't love him. Not because he was a beast or white - I couldn't love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn't feel it.

Eduardo C. Corral

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#48. His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Theodore White

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#49. With beat of systole and of diastole One grand great life throbs through earth's giant heart, And mighty waves of single Being roll From nerveless germ to man, for we are part Of every rock and bird and beast and hill, One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill. From

Oscar Wilde

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#50. Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice.
I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?"
"A cliff's edge," she whispers.
Precipice. Must be a French word.

Daven Anderson

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#51. Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

C. A. Bartol

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#52. Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.

Amy Harmon

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#53. Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy ... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas

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#54. Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.

Kedar Joshi

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#55. The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#56. Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence ... and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

T.F. Hodge

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#57. People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#58. Let every man and every beast - every creature that has the breath of the Lord - praise the Eternal! Praise the Eternal!

Anonymous

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#59. A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg

Elmer Kelton

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#60. 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.

Anna Sewell

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#61. 666 Pennsylvania Ave. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:18

Hunter S. Thompson

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#62. Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?

Fernando Pessoa

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#63. I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

Robin Ince

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#64. The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle.

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#65. The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#66. all these intellectual complications make me sick, disgust me - all this philosophy that uncovers the beast in man, and then seeks to save him, excuse him

Luigi Pirandello

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#67. Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Edward Dahlberg

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#68. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare

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#69. And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#70. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Kang Chol-Hwan

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#71. And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#72. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!

William Shakespeare

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#73. Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#74. He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility.

She could sip from that cup.

It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

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#75. Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#76. He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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#77. Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.

Suzy Kassem

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#78. I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.

Henry David Thoreau

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#79. To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

Umberto Eco

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#80. There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur.

Demetri Martin

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#81. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

George R R Martin

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#82. A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

William Henry Hudson

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#83. I died a little inside. The beast hated seeing her so meek and broken while the man learned a new compassion for caring. But day by day, hour by hour, the passion and need I felt for her turned from lover to brother. From consumed to confused.

Pepper Winters

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#84. It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Johann Most

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#85. Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#86. If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so.

Rachel L. Demeter

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#87. The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

Annette Dumbach

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#88. That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets
Got a new condo moving to the beach
Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib
Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

Drake

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#89. Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

Matt Kemp

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#90. A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

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#91. One all-extending soul connects each being, greatest with the least; made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.

Alexander Pope

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#92. Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

Elie Ducommun

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#93. There is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.

Margaret Cavendish

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#94. If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

Henry Arthur Jones

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#95. My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

James Boswell

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#96. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

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#97. Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Jean-Francois De La Harpe

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#98. The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

George Herbert

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#99. Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.

Blaise Pascal

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#100. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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