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Martin Delany

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr."

Martin Delany, American Soldier
Animals, Affection, Favorite
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Amber Hurdle

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

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

Mark Twain, American Author
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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."

Mark Twain, American Author
Animals, Speech, Cat, Personality
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"I hate cats."Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant."I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters."

Terry Pratchett, English Author
Animals, Power, Regret, Today
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"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."

Terry Pratchett, English Author
Animals, Truth, Today, Wisdom
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"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer
Animals, Being, Children
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"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist
Animals, Intelligence, Comparison, Life
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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet
Animals, Man
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"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

W. H. Auden, English Poet
Animals, Children, Faces
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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck, American Author
Animals, Contempt, Dogs, Eyes

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