"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."

Animals, Vacation

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"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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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

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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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

Paul Valery, French Poet

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

Kent McCord, American Actor

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"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Reason is the servant of instinct."

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"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

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"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."

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"Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality."

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"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."

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"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."

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"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."

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"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."

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