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Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

~James Herriot

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

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I will write another book if I feel like it.

~James Herriot

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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

~James Herriot

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1916

Died: February 23rd, 1995

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