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  1. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    Captain," said Bluebell, "do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" Hazel looked at him sharply, but Holly replied, "Well?" "It said, 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!
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  2. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    There's terrible evil in the world." "It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
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  3. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.
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  4. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    alighted near Hazel and Fiver. "How's Holly?" asked Hazel. "'E sad," said Kehaar. "'E say you no come back." Then he added, "Mees Clover, she ready for mudder." "That's good," said Hazel. "Is anyone doing anything about it?" "Ya, ya, ees all to fight." "Oh, well, I suppose it'll sort itself out.
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  5. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    There's terrible evil in the world."It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals."
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  6. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.
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  7. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe.
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  8. 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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  9. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.
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  10. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship.
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  11. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    The primroses were over.
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  12. Richard Adams _ Watership Down

    We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.
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