It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

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About Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. She was best known as the creator of the Polyanna series of books, starting with Pollyanna (1913), which were a popular phenomenon.

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You can't surprise a man with a dog.

—Eleanor H. Porter

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are.

—G. C. Lichtenberg

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The cat is a dilettante in fur.

—Théophile Gautier

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My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.