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"'Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit 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: A Novel
)
tags:
evil
9 people liked it
"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
-Grandpa Joe"
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Roald Dahl
(
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
)
20 people liked it
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
—
Agatha Christie
142 people liked it
"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
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Agatha Christie
tags:
philosophy
20 people liked it
"Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored."
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Agatha Christie
(
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
)
tags:
instinct
7 people liked it
"When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!"
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Agatha Christie
(
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
)
tags:
honesty
3 people liked it
"An appreciative listener is always stimulating."
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Agatha Christie
(
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
)
tags:
listening
3 people liked it
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
—
Robert Frost
tags:
happiness
240 people liked it
""Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive." "
—
Walter Scott
15 people liked it
"It is a fair evenhanded, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. "
—
Charles Dickens
(
A Christmas Carol
)
6 people liked it
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