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Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

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Groucho MarxThe Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same be...

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by ...

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You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Ca...

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Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes h...

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I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

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Irvine WelshIf You Liked School

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...

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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."On...

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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted...

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hung...

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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, ...

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But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat int...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...

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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and...

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Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eye...

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(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...

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Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s aut...

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We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction ...

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Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with oursel...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonDogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up...

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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, ...

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[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."The kid lifted his eyebrows."My mouth is pa...

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People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

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Jim ButcherWhite Night

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact wit...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are ...

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Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that...

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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think...

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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Every dog must have his day.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition...

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It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

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Kate DiCamilloBecause of Winn-Dixie

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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Kate DiCamilloBecause of Winn-Dixie

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and a...

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I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to m...

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Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...

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Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...

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Mark TwainLetters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord G...

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LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT(PERCY THREE)He puts his cheek against mineand makes small, express...

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Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or ...

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I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is...

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EVERY DOG’S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It’s just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith...

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No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, ...

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reas...

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Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.A dog is a true and loving friend. A dogis also a hedonist.

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which ...

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It does no good to bark at the television,I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.N...

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Mary OliverSwan: Poems and Prose Poems

The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to w...

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that whi...

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Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals we...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs ...

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It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each ot...

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Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly."Would you like one?" she as...

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I will not be my father's dog.

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

Joyful, joyful, joyful,as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spi...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in...

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a ...

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it m...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will h...

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