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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Will,

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."
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"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"
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"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."

"I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love."

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring."

"I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago."

"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
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