"He scraped various titbits off the plates into a brown paper bag, to be given eventually to a mangy little white dog, with pink patches on its back, that visited him sometimes in the afternoon — there was no reason a human’s misfortune should interfere with a canine’s pleasure."

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

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