Accepted Quote by Richard Adams

“If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.”

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“Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.”

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“Then El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too clever for him and he was frightened. He thought that the fox and the weasel were coming with Frith and he turned to the face of the hill and begin to dig. He dug a hole, but he had dug only a little of it when Frith came over the hill alone. And…

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“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”

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“My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along the floor. Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah,' he said. 'There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's.…

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“Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon,…

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Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

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Who knows why men do anything?

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