"In my day the schools taught two things,……" — Cleveland Amory
"In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either."
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28 Quotes by Cleveland Amory
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience…
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What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
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...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand,…
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that…
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
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For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social…
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You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats…
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Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for…
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You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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