"Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered."
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"If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!"
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"An old dog barks not in vain."
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"Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have."
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
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"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."
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"The dog that trots about finds a bone."
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"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him."
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"But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods."
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"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
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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."
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"But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow."
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"The biggest dog has been a pup."
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"The dog without his master was like a body without a soul."
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"God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads."
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"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
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"Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit."
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"Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog"
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"Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself."
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"Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems."
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