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No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.
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
James Alfred Wight
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
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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 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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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
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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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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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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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Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
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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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