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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~David Starr Jordan

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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~Elbert Hubbard

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Wil

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~Erma Bombeck

The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller

Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~Theodosia Garrison

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special. ~Chris Rock

And as long as we are going down this road now is probably a good time to hear from Michael Jackson, too. MJ who died the way he lived and lived the way he died.

Michael I hope you are happy (wherever you are) and finally have a nose you can  enjoy for a long time.   Why not get together with Janis, Elvis, Jim, John and the rest and do something like We Are The World Beyond?

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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber

To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988