“Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.”
Kearsley, 606
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
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