12 Quotes By Great Thinkers Who Explain Why They Love Dogs

Here are several of history's great figures—writers, politicians, and philosophers alike—trying to describe the human-canine bond.
Via: Mental Floss

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    Text - "The greatest pleasure of a-dog is you may make a fool of him d notonly will me not scold you, but he veurseli with Make A teal of himse. Samuel Butler, author, from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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    Dog - "Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." Mark Twain, author, in a note to Albert Bigelow Paine VED JOHAN VAN ESCH
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    Water - 'Plus je vois le homes, plus chiens." ("The more I see more l admire dogs.") Jeanne-Marie Roland, Marquise de Sévigné and French revolutionary, in a letter-to her daughter e les the
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    Eye - dogis the cmy thing on earth that nhe loves himself." Josh Billings, 19th century humorist More t
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    Dog - "There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize winning zoologist, from King Solomon's Ring
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    Text - Sve always tried out my mate rial on my dogs first. You know, with Angel, he sits there and listens and I get the feeling he understands everything. But with Charley, I always felt he was just waiting to get a word in edgewise. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscriptof Of Mice and Men, I said at the me that the apgmust have been an excellent literary criti John Steinbeck, author, to The Paris Review
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    People in nature - Ta dag will not cometo yoafter he has looked you in the face, yo dught to go heide and examine your conscience. Woodrow Wilson, 28h President of the United States, from his address,The Young People and the Church" sarahbethphotography.com
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    Canidae - lam I becaue my little dog knows me." Gertrude Stein, author, from "Identity a Poem" o sarahbethphotography.com
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    Dog breed - M little old dog A heart beat at my feet." Edith Wharton, author, froma handwritten note in Paul- Louis Couchoud's Sages et Potes Dasie
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    Text - "DOG A kina of additionator subsidiary Diety de gned to cafch the overilew or surplus of the orld sworship Armbrose Bierce, Civil War veteran, write from The Dévil's Dictionary aTAnCE hand ens adapted by kB0yah n
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    Dog breed - "IMy dagmp hels not a little a hesomebody eiseot 9 hes not Pablo Picasso, artist, from a conversation with photographer David Douglas Duncan
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    Dog - The dog ts the god of frolic Henry Ward Beecher, activist and abolitionist
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