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“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”

Men Way Literature Animal Worst Rational Defining

Author:Anatole France

“The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.”

Writing Age Literature Nations Sports Animal Imagine Weapons Lions Stakes Mail Sanctions Tease Patron Diversion Paws Armour Boars

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.”

People Knows Different Running Kids School Courses Literature Animal Watches Morning Millions Television Ready Eight Teeth Brushing Different Animals

Author:Katie Couric

“Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.”

Humans Form Literature Lines Animal Taken Kingdoms Animal Kingdom

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

“There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")”

World Children Book Real Literature Names Animal Talking Adults Cat Silly Sensible Pigs Figs Whimsical Condescending Children's Literature Real Talk

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.”

Heart May Literature Animal Frozen Emperor Inaccessible Penguins Antarctica

Book:The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Literature Process Animal Liberty Method Ruined Immature Converting Being Immature Mature And Immature Immature People

Author:Muhammad Iqbal