Secrets go faster than moles underground.
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
We come into the world and we have to go: but we do not go merely to serve the turn of one enemy or another. If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day.
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sid down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see…
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Rabbits, of course, have no idea of precise time or of punctuality. In this respect they are much the same as primitive people, who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started. Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin.
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| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
