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A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. - [Humor] Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot. - [Dogs] Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. - [Evolution] Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. - [Science] We do not take humor seriously enough. - [Humor] Why should I tell of the darker side of life with animals? Because the degree of one's willingness to bear with this darker side is the measure of one's love for animals. I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents who only shook their heads or sighed when, as a schoolboy or young student, I once again brought home a new and probably yet more destructive pet? And what has my wife put up with, in the course of the years? - King Solomon's Ring (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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