The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
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Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
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