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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,…

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…

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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and… — Charles Darwin
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we… — Gale Gordon
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors. — Cesar Millan
When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two… — Randy Alcorn
They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us… — Vern Rutsala
The liberal Gluten-free agenda is turning our dogs lesbian. — Stephen Colbert
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. — Ambrose Bierce
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. — C.S. Lewis
Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me… — Walt Disney
Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are… — Pam Houston
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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