Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.― Milan Kundera

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.― Josh Billings

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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. -Diogenes

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.― Mark Twain

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.― Mark Twain

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.― Winston S. Churchill

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.― Jack London

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.― Will Rogers

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.― Mark Twain

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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.― Charles M. Schulz

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