"He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions."

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The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

— Marjorie Garber