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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

William Lyon Phelps

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William Lyon Phelps
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: January 2
Died: 1943
Died: August 21
Author
Scientist
University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Cat
Delicately
Amazing
Tortured
Capacity
Relaxation
Activity
Tense
Values
Contain
Women
Domestic
Medicinal
Every
Household
Irritable
Men
Balanced
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