But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Richard Adams


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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.

Richard Adams

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All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Richard Adams


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Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Richard Adams


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

Richard Adams

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They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Richard Adams

Tags: fear authority



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They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

Richard Adams

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

Richard Adams

Tags: psychology



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He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.

Richard Adams

Tags: psychology



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Underground, the story continued.

Richard Adams

Tags: last-lines



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