How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord … - D. H. Lawrence

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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

D. H. Lawrence

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

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