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It began with a sincere sympathy for recalcitrant animals

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It began with a sincere sympathy for recalcitrant animals and flowered into a generalized preference for Liberty over authority, spontaneity over calculation, candor over artifice, friendship over hierarchy, heart over head and nature over culture."

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1757-1834 (Age at death: 77 approx.)

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Context Details: protege of General George Washington and Revolutionary hero both here and in France, which read

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