"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."

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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton