In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

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Man and animals

Author

Edward Hoagland

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Harper's Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Hoagland, Edward. "The Tug of Life at the End of the Leash." Harpers Magazine, Feb. 1975.

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Byron White
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English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

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Man and animals

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Niccolo Machiavelli
Source
The Prince
Medium
Treatise
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Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
Italian
Time
1532 1530s 16th century
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Original Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

Current Citation

Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.