A Quote by Brian Jacques
Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
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...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.
And when the storms came through
They found me and you
Back together
And when the sun would shine
It was yours and mine.
Yours and mine forever.
Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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