"What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate."

Source : Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

Edward Mayhew

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“I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness”
“The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.”
“I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.”

Source : "Josh Duhamel's career goals finally coming true". www.today.com. June 24, 2009.
“I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly,”
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.
“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”

Source : "Why I’ll Read 20 Books Before Bedtime" by Rachael Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.
“Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”
“When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out...”

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