"I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee."

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Source : Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joel Chandler Harris

#Foxes Quotes #Patches Quotes #Fling Quotes

“We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.”
“We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.”
“The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.”
“We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”
“Men are never brave, are they?”

Source : "Blair has hospital treatment after putting back into No 10 workout" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2005.
“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
“We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.”
“A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.”

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