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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if

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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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. – Hilaire Belloc

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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc

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The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907

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

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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. – Marianne Williamson

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