All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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The Way of All Flesh
by
Samuel Butler
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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The Black Cat
by
Edgar Allan Poe
Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are.
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Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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Coriolanus
by
William Shakespeare
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past--they never do; they're too busy.
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The Wind in the Willows
by
Kenneth Grahame
"You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor."
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The Talisman
by
Sir Walter Scott
"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."
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The Talisman
by
Sir Walter Scott
"It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
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Pollyanna
by
Eleanor H. Porter
A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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The Crime of The Brigadier
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours."
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Martin Chuzzlewit
by
Charles Dickens