W. C. Sellar Quotes

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

W. C. Sellar

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• To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

  

  W. C. Sellar
  • Horse
  • Suicide