Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 51)
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
Source: [Herriot, James, James Herriot's Cat Stories, 1994, 0-7181-3852-X] (in the introduction and in "Moses Found Among the Rushes")
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