“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.”

—  Walter Scott, book The Talisman

The Talisman (1825), Ch. 24.

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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