It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and bo…

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It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.201, Penguin
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