"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man."

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

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