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STATUES His name is
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DOG STUFF It isn't that one wants to live for the sake of a dog, exactly, but that dogs show you why you might want to. Mark Doty (Dog Years) |
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If the story of all dogs who have loved and been loved by the race of man could be written, each history of a dog would resemble all the other stories. It would be a love story. James Douglas (The Bunch Book) |
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POEMS 'Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come; Lord Byron (Don Juan, Canto I, st. 123) |
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TEXTS In the whole story of the world there is but one thing that money can not buy... to wit — the wag of a dog's tail. Josh Billings |
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SNOUTS If you don’t have a dog — at least one — there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. Vincent Van Gogh Also attributed to Roger Caras |
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COMICS The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. (Plus je vois les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens.) Madame Roland (1754-1793) Also attributed to Frederick The Great (1712-1786) (The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.) Ouida (1839-1908) Marie De Sévigné (1626-1696) Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
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LINKS If you pick
up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you. |
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PAINTINGS All knowledge, the totality
of all questions and all answers, |
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GALLERY Did you dream that I should be faithless and forsake you? I, — a dog? Ouida (A Dog of Flanders) |
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SITE MAP If a dog not come to you after having looked at your face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Woodrow Wilson |
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HOMMER No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich. Louis Sabin |
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MOSTARDA Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope |
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FABLES A good person will feel guilty even before a dog. Anton Chekhov |
