You can't make the Duchess of ...

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
 Cleveland Amory

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I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
 Cleveland Amory
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
 Cleveland Amory
I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.
 Cleveland Amory
The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
 Cleveland Amory