"We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child."
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"From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle."
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"I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me."
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"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
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"O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !"
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"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself."
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"In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker."
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"If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast."
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"The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast."
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"Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape."
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"In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many."
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"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss."
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"Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can."
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"Man is neither angel nor beast."
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"To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!"
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"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?"
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"As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either."
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"Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts."
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