A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of … - Margaret Benson

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A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

Margaret Benson

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

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The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

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The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.

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All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

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apparent contradiction. . . is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

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