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Captivity
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Abuse is a more effective form of captivity than a cell will ever be.
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― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without
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