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There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

— John Muir Stickeen (1909)

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Notes from Wikiquote

For more excerpts from Muir's account of the dog Stickeen in Alaska, see Stickeen.

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