"Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered."

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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

— Katherine Mansfield