Quotes from Max von Stephanitz:

"Whenever the dog is kept in an enclosed kennel . . . he will not only degenerate physically, becoming stiff, sluggish and lazy, but will also become mentally torpid, and lose all his sharpness and vim."

"The gait of a good shepherd dog is so easy and gliding that during an even trot, not a drop of water wold be spilled from a full glass placed on his back."

"A good judge . . . must be free from the narrowness of mind which confines its energies to the discovery of failings, or in biased preferences in relation to physical beauty. . . and he must not be influenced either by the ambition or greed of individuals, nor by the only too often ill-directed whim of the market."

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