Clarence Day - This Simian World (1920)

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This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

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The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

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It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice the most for.

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What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is — blind or not—a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

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Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb—such power and such restraint, combined, are noble—but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

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When the brain fails to act with the body, or, worse, works against it, the body will sicken no matter what cures doctors try.

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The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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