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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1874). “Chapters on Animals”, p.48
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.