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W. H. Auden

"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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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."

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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