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«Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners»

Author: Isaac Disraeli | About: Books | Keywords: accidents, besides, Borrowers, collections, damp, damps, rats, subject to, worms

«It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.»

Author: Jean Harris | Keywords: caged, poked, pokes, poking, rat, rats, sticks, uglier, ugly

«In the circle in which I travel, a dumb man is more dangerous than a hundred rats.»

Author: Joe Valachi | About: Travel | Keywords: circle, dumb, rats, The Circle

«Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly»

Author: Roger Ebert (Critic, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: assembled, assembling, nightly, pack, piecemeal, rats, research, The web, web

«I wouldn't mind the rat race -- if the rats would lose once in a while.»

Author: Tom Wilson | Keywords: once in a while, rat, rats, rat race

«It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking»

Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: cheering, rats, ship, sinking

«And the muttering grew to a grumbling; / And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;/ And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.»

Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: grew, grumble, grumbles, grumbling, houses, mighty, mutter, muttered, muttering, rats, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, rumblings, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling

«Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan»

Author: African Proverb | Keywords: arrows, rats, shoot, shoot for, Shoot Out, shoot up, Sudan

«Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Beauty, World | Keywords: balance, balancing, disgust, disgusts, evermore, magnificence, marvelous, rats

«For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum»

Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: bunches, discard, discarding, discards, English, Judges, monstrous, oakum, peep, peeping, peeps, rats, the English, wig, wigs

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