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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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Gratitude... is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Joseph Stalin
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He [Cézanne] reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days
Edward Hoagland
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
John Selden
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon Scott
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How noble and ennobling!—but within
How mean, how poor, how pitiful, how mix'd
With base alloy; how Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope; how Envy dogs success;
How every victor's crown is lined with thorns,
And worn mid scoffs!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
Kiran Desai
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There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
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She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Brontë
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia
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A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee
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Law Number VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman R. Augustine
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Just remember this one thing: Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard
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I am in love with my dog. I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.
Caroline Knapp
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