"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"Sooner or later we're all someone's dog."
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"Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns."
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"Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you."
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"The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup."
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"If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets."
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"Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out."
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"I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!"
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"I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later."
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"The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind."
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"They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another."
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"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."
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"The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]"
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"Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs."
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"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!"
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"The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans. You could find signs here in Boston in the restaurants saying "No dogs and Irish.""
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"The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them."
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"It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?"
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