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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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