"It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life."

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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

— Mark Twain