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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race prov

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

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