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Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. it's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern america's favorite poet. people like poets to possess the same qualities they do.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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Cats Are To Dogs What Modern People

P. J. O'Rourke
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. it's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern america's favorite poet. people like poets to possess the same qualities they do.
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