Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to th

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary. – Charles Baudelaire

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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The cannon thunders… limbs fly in all directions… one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice… its Humanity in search of happiness. – Charles Baudelaire

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine

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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. – Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. – E.W. Howe

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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. – Edward Dahlberg

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