The dog has got more fun out of Man than…

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

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“An Introduction”, The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber’s Dogs (1955)

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