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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

William Ralph Inge

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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