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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great h... - MORE Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... "Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"

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scientists

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When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg. When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.

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pregnancy and childbirth

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A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and... - MORE A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.

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killing

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Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

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jewelry

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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. - MORE A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

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women and men

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It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To b... - MORE It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

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ugliness

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Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime--I'm referring to t... - MORE Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime--I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

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suffering

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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with ... - MORE Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

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infatuation

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

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friends | friendship

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

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smells

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