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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy a

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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Joseph Butler
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. – Woody Allen

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The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. – John Walters

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Food

It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!—gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all—five pounds—and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering. – Peter Singer

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What is a rebel? A man who says no. – Albert Camus

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo

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Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. – Phyllis McGinley

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