If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. - James Herriot

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.― George Orwell

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

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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.― Robert Louis Stevenson

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.― Mark Twain

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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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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -Immanuel Kant

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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.― Marilyn Monroe

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.― Groucho Marx

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