I think I could turn
and live with animals,
they are so placid
and self-contained.
They do not sweat and whine
about their condition,
they do not lie awake
in the dark and
weep for their sins,
they do not make me sick
discussing their duty to God,
not one is dissatisfied,
not one is demented with
the mania of owning things,
not one kneels to another
nor to his kind that lived
thousands of years ago,
not one is respectable
or unhappy
over the whole earth.
- Walt Whitman
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