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“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
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- Source:
- Ch. 6
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f28b28c7f1ca1a8a5eb722d8abd76d57eec8d8ae94e4589347e3950bb66bd9b9
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