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"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."

— Brian O'Nolan The Third Policeman (1967)

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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

The Best of Myles (1968)

"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable."

The Third Policeman (1967)

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."

The Dalkey archive (1964)

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

Bertrand Russell Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948)

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Alexander Pope

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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