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Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

James Herriot

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James Herriot
Age: 78 †
Born: 1916
Born: October 3
Died: 1995
Died: February 23
Autobiographer
Comedian
Physician Writer
Veterinarian
Veterinary Surgeon
James Alfred Alf Wight
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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
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If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
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A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
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No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.
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