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“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

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Book:Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs

Source: Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!”

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

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

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

Source: False Memory

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”

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Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”

Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

Source: A Celebration of Dogs

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

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

Source: King Solomon's Ring

“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”

Source: The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade

“Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.”

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Book:Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…

Source: Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…

“I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.”