My World

I never saw a wild thing sorry for himself.
 -- D.H. LAWRENCE

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around
three times before lying down. --Robert Benchley

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs
I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
--James Thurber

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
--Andy Rooney

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

Dog Poem

I think I could turn and live with animals,

they are so placid and contain'd,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented

with the mania of owning things.

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that

lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

                                                               -- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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