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In the Polish language there are many sayings, terms that refer to animals in a negative, contemptuous way, such as: "The dog licked your mouth. You were fucked by a dog. A dead dog doesn't bite. The gardener's dog - he won't eat himself and won't give to another. The last ones are bitten by dogs. Not for the dog the sausage, not for the piglets the honey. Peasant dumb as a donkey, sly as the devil. The old mule is hard to chase. Pole like a monkey, what he sees, he wants to have. An animalization of customs. You behave like an animal. It's easy for a dead lion to pluck his beard. Once a goat's death. He taught Martin Martin, and himself dumb as a pig. You eat like a pig. Let a pig into the palace, it will make a pigsty for you. They don't tear two skins from one ox." Libera reflects on man's sense of superiority and disrespect towards the animal.