“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”
Tom, Scene Four
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes
Source: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 12 : Man's Reason
“Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
Christopher Caudwell (1907–1937) British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer
Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949), Chapter IV: Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/59/12260.html, vol. 1, letter 34
“A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)