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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch th

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worlds worship. – Ambrose Bierce

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. – Ambrose Bierce

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. – Konrad Lorenz

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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. – Mme. de Staël

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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Our live experiences fixed in aphorisms stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart’s blood, as we write with it, darkens into ink. – F.H. Bradley

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You cannot build character and courage by destroying mens initiative and independence. – William J. H. Boetcker

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