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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
Anton Chekhov
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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
Mark Twain
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
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We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
C. S. Lewis
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
C. S. Lewis
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We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.
Desmond Tutu
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It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
L. Frank Baum
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I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!
William Shakespeare
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
Abraham Lincoln
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
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It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)
Stephen King
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A dog, said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.
Agatha Christie
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I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
Mother Teresa
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Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.
Stephen King
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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
Stephen King
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I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles Darwin
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If the country doesn't go to the dogs or the Radicals, we shall have you Prime Minister, some day.
Oscar Wilde
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
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…Stevens himself hating horses even more than dogs, rating the horse an unassailable first in loathing since though both were parasites, the dog at least had the grace to be a sycophant too; it at least fawned on you and so kept you healthily ashamed of the human race. But the real reason was, though neither the horse nor the dog ever forgot anything, the dog at least forgave you; and his, Stevens's, thought was that what the world needed was more forgiving.
William Faulkner
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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'
Rudyard Kipling
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Ross:
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes:
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Ross:
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes:
That was the curious incident.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a— a— a meat dog," said the girl.
L. Frank Baum
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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
Albert Camus
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