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“Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."”

Giving Littles Said Too Much Talent Dog Kings Give Me Cynic

Author:Plutarch

“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.”

Ifs Persons Made Stills Hard Natural Dog Kings Behavior Overcoming Shoes Manners Behaviour Lace Propensity

Author:Bill Vaughan

“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.”

Men Age Lying Dies Language Ability Dog Creation Kings Disease Cat Claims Cancer Spread Cows Biblical Rats Plague Contagious Diabetes Mammals Prodigious Spoken Language

Author:Fernando Vallejo

“Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.”

War Bigs Forget Rights Dog Military Kings Gun Argument Forget You Total War Artillery Dogs Of War

Author:Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

“If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.”

Ifs Men Dies Dog Kings Approach Spring Horse Punishment Priests Pigs Intercourse Mules

Author:Orson Scott Card

“For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.”

Should Dog Kings Benefits Cat Should Have Lions Crowns Tigers Notre Dame

Book:The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

Source: The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.”

People Men Mean Country Faces White Teach Support Taken Dog Kings Police Clubs Beast White Man Luther Captivity Defenseless Reverends

Author:Malcolm X

“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”

Stories School Dog Kings Library Biographies Sections Luther Elementary School Eleanor Biographers Carver My Biography Madame Curie Reading Biographies

Author:Christine Quinn