".. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players"
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"Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb."
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"As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping."
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"Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans."
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"When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard."
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"The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism."
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"When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time."
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"Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun"
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"Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce."
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"I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are."
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"But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity."
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"One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time."
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"My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats."
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"Why did I adopt kids? I dunno. Let me look at my family: religious weirdo, gun nut, biker, boozer, dead tooth, too many cats, the guy who talks to his truck. Hmm. Maybe I adopted because genetically my balls are full of poison."
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"It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming."
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"I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree."
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"Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!"
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"Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats."
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"Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair."
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"Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time."
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