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Continuing with Wodehouse
“I grant you all this,” he said, “but still, in my opinion, you have not got to the root of the matter. The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority. Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them too prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share. And on a sensitive man this often has the worst effects, inducing an inferiority complex of the gavest kind…”
– from P. G. Wodehouse, “The Story of Webster”
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