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• Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

  Richard Adams

  Names, Might, Dangerous

  Richard Adams (2015). “The Plague Dogs”, p.115, Oneworld Publications

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• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

  Richard Adams

  Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Who knows why men do anything?

  Richard Adams

  Men, Why Me, Knows

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.61, Oneworld Publications

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• Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

  Richard Adams

  Sooner Or Later

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• How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Dad, Mean

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• The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

  Richard Adams

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.25, Oneworld Publications

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