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• like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Men, Alive

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Country, Hunting

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

  George Herbert

  Grapes, Ripe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Humor, Trials

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• Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

  George Herbert

  Deceiving

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

  Thomas Fuller

  Play, Criminal Mind

  "Fictional character: Jason Gideon". "Criminal Minds". Season 1, Episode 7: "The Fox", www.imdb.com. November 09, 2005.

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• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Wheat Fields, Color, Done

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• Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Chickens

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.223, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Garden, Squirrels

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

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• The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

  Archilochus

  Knowledge, Science, Hedgehogs

  Fragment 103 See Isaiah Berlin 1

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• He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Track, Tails

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• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Voice, Captivity

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Writing and Books' in 'Works in Verse and Prose' (1764) vol. 2

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• The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Looks, Mouths

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

  Norman Jewison

  Animal, Rabbits, Totems

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• I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Trying, Hedgehogs

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sheep, Might, Angry

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.76, Random House

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• A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

  Aesop

  Beautiful, House, Brain

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Space, Snow, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!

  Glenn Beck

  Real, Blessing, Calvary

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• Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

  John Green

  Pudge, Looking For Alaska Book

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.86, Penguin

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• A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Taken, Grapes

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• As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
  [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fowl, Captured

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