"I love them," said Dorothy. "They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are too good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."
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Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
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Pollyanna
by
Eleanor H. Porter
But often the great cat Fate lets us go only to clutch us again in a fiercer grip.
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The Curse of Eve
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
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Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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The Parasite
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day."
~
A Tale of Two Cities
by
Charles Dickens