Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?
("Black Beauty")
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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