The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

—Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...

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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

—Samuel Butler

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

—Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

—Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

—Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

—Samuel Butler

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It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

—Randy K. Milholland

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their
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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

—Edward Abbey

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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

—Russell Hoban

Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.

—Astrid Alauda

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