"Lest I slight any creature, I must also mention the domestic animals, the beasts and birds from whom I have learned. Job said long ago (35:11): «Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?» Some of what I have learned from them I have written in my books, but I fear that I have not learned as much as I should have, for when I hear a dog bark, or a bird twitter, or a cock crow, I do not know whether they are thanking me for all I have told of them, or calling me to account."
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm (10 December 1966), in Nobelprize.org.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
(July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize writer and was one of the central figures of fiction.
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