"The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic."

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I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.

— J. R. Ackerley