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Richard Adams, Watership Down Quotes: You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?
         

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?


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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.



Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.



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[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.



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Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not



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