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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

Charles Darwin

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWIN

Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
The normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWIN

Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian

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