Quote by George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions,

Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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Animals

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Animals

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. – Hilaire Belloc

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Animals

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. – Laurence Sterne

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Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat. – Author Unknown

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Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. – Pablo Picasso

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