Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter - small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so, and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
I should have been a Trappist monk.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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