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Quotes from More Beasts for Worse Children — Hilaire Belloc

1870–1953 England

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4 quotes

The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man.

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

What! Would you slap the Porcupine?
Unhappy child — desist!
Alas! That any friend of mine
Should turn Tupto-philist.

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hilaire Belloc (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.