"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."

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"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."

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"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Animals, Cats, History, Companionship, Observation

"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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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

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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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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Animals, Dogs, Loyalty, Happiness, Love

"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Animals, Cats, Identity, Peace

"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

Animals, Freedom, Responsibility, Parenting

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Animals, Life, Death, Afterlife

"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

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

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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Death

"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people."

God

"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

Heart

"Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over."

Sea

"But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for."

Nation

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

War

"The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary."

Adventure

"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."

Fear

"I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting."

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