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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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• Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

  Obert Skye

  Home, Spiders, Cages

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

  Anne Bronte

  Fire, Depth, Hot

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Travel, Too Much, Funny Travel

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, Owning A Pet, Worry

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• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Animal, Outstanding, Blindness

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• Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18

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• I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Funny, Witty, Cat

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• A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

  Joseph Epstein

  Jobs, Cat, Animal

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• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  W. L. George

  Cat, And Love, Shelter

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• The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• One cat just leads to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Fun, Mean

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.215, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Rushing, Mad

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Friendship, Cat, Animal

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• Kittens can happen to anyone.

  Paul Gallico

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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• You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

  Jane Pauley

  Sleep, Cat, Animal

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• A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Animal, Play

  "Selections from the Journals".

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• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Wind, Done

  "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses".

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• People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Character, Cat

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.122, Ballantine Books

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Helpful, Moments

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