Cleveland Amory
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"Cleveland Amory" was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. He was perhaps best known for his books about his cat, named Polar Bear, whom he saved from the Manhattan streets on Christmas Eve 1977. The executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as "the founding father of the modern animal protection movement."

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A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

A supreme social challenge.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

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

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.