"The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself."

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Source : Albert Payson Terhune (1921). “Buff: a Collie: And Other Dog-stories”

Albert Payson Terhune

#Friendship Quotes #Dog Quotes #Pain Quotes

“We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015
“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”
“Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.”
“It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.”
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”

Source : Eminent Victorians preface (1918)
“Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
“Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.”
“Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.”

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