"The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it."
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"Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog."
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"Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man."
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"He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas."
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"Dogs are fine in the field."
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"A bad dog never sees the Wolfe."
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"If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]"
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"In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone."
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"If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead."
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"Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek."
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"If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya"
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"Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!"
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"Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died."
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"At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died."
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"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog."
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"The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored."
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"Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory."
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"I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility."
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"Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills."
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"In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd."
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