Quotes about animals

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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

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'Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention? '
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
'That was the curious incident, ' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

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A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.

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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

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Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.