"He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books."

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They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

— Rebecca Solnit