| 11. | Correction does much for the horse, but encouragement does more.
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| 12. | A horse is an angel without wings
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| 13. | I whisper to my horse, but he never listens!
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| 14. | My other car is a horse.
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| 15. | Just because you can jump a fence going north doesn't mean you can jump in going south.
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| 16. | A good rider can hear his horse speak to him.
A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
But a bad rider won't hear his horse even if it screams at him!
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| 17. | A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon a they get on a young horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure they would beat him to death before they would make him read.
- Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses - Original source unknown.
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| 18. | You never get the pleasure of owning a horse, you only have the pleasure of being its slave.
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| 19. | Grooming: the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to the groom.
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| 20. | You can love horse and ride it and a horse can love you and squash you.
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