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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

— Paul Theroux

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Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

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