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• The zoo is not an exhibition I view with much enjoyment, when I notice beasts in a position To learn the weaknesses of men.
  -- John Brunne...
• Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm xlix, 12, 20...
• Man are beasts, and even beasts don't behave as they do.
• Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act v, Sc. 4...
• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
  -- Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647...
• O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -- Plotinu
• The Bible is an opiate to keep the beasts of burden patient.