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"I skipped the poetry :$ Sorry, but poetry, even if well done and beautiful is just not my thing." — Mar 27, 2012 09:48AM
"I skipped the poetry :$ Sorry, but poetry, even if well done and beautiful is just not my thing." — Mar 27, 2012 09:48AM
“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Snuff
― Snuff
“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.”
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“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”
― Nation
― Nation
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