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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mother, Animal, Cuckoos

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Hugh Blair
Sports, Pain, Cuckoos
Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

Daniel Handler
Cuckoos, Fool
Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.136, Egmont UK

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