Albert Payson Terhune quotes
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“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Albert Payson Terhune (1930). “To the Best of My Memory”, New York : Harper
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“Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”
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“Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “A Book of Famous Dogs”, p.79, Read Books Ltd
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“When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Albert Payson Terhune (2015). “Further Adventures of Lad”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Albert Payson Terhune (1921). “Buff: a Collie: And Other Dog-stories”
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“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Albert Payson Terhune (1993). “Lad: A Dog”, p.10, Penguin
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“I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.”
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“No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.”
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated”, p.111, Read Books Ltd
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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”
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“I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.”
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“Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.”
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“I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.”
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“Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.”
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