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  •    What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?

    -WilliamJennings Bryan
    Statement issued in Dayton, Tennessee, 28  Jul1925, by Mrs W  J Bryan, shortly after the endof the Scopes trial and her husband's death.

  • I just won't get into a pissing contest with that skunk.

    - Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
      Comment to his brother Milton, refusing to publicly contend with Senator  Joseph R McCarthy. Quoted in Piers Brandon Ike (1986).

  • To blame someone like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      In the Tribune, 21  Apr.

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