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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must...more

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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive...more

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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite...more

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The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.

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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than ...more

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The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident ...more

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he doe...more

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The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purri...more

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Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats le...more

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Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvelous golden spires of Thran. And just at...more