The lead horse is upright, tense, its ears perked, while the other hangs its head, as if thinking deeply, horses think many things and are the closest of all animals to philosophers.
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His essay-like quarterly letters have previously quoted famous philosophers, the New Testament and President Richard Nixon.
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