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587.

... what pleasure can one find in hearing the barking and howling of dogs, which seem rather odious than pleasant sounds.

 

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, ed. Henry Morley, London, 1901, p. 60.

PLACE: England

TIME: 1516

CIRCUMSTANCES: More is complaining about the hunt, an activity which he would prohibit from his Utopia.


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