“There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.”
Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) French playwright
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux.
La Sauvage ["The Restless Heart"] (1938), Act 3.
“A lost dog is bad; a lost man is terrible.”
In Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#
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