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• I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Saws, Puppy

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• Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Fun, Book

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• The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Two, Masters, Old Dog

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.15, 谷月社

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• That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Thinking, Smell

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• What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Names, Tin

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• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Smile, Children, Cat

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• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

  Alexander Pope

  Loyalty, Silly, Example

  Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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• Dogs are a habit, I think.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Funny, Thinking, Habit

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• Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Three, Puppy, Hundred

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  People, Saws, Puppy

  Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1989). “Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle”

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• Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

  Mary McGrory

  Friendship, Animal, Hands

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• Let sleeping dogs lie.

  Robert Walpole

  Lying, Sleep, Parliament

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• Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

  J. R. Ackerley

  Friendship, Lists, Needs

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• We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

  Roger Caras

  Friendship, Lessons, Pleasure

  Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

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• The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Friendship, War, Home

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• Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Friendship, Reading, Book

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• Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

  H. L. Mencken

  Easy, Canine, Idealist

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• You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch

  Stephen Huneck

  Lunch

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• Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

  Gene Hill

  Nature, Silly, Animal

  Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

  Walter Scott

  Short Life, Loss, Compassion

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Friendship, Together

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

  Eva Braun

  Friendship, Lonely, Asking

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• He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

  Mark Twain

  Quality, Mutts, Common

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

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• Being patted is what it is all about.

  Roger Caras

  Humor

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• A good dog deserves a good bone.

  Ben Jonson

  Bones, Canine, Deserve

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