"The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it."
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"When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease."
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"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."
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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
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"The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees."
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"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."
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"I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti."
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"God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes."
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"Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders."
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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
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"Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water."
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"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad."
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"The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning."
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"Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!"
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"All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."
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"Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes."
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"The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes."
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"The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both."
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"The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman."
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