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turtle quotes

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“Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. . . . I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will—but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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