“ It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off? ”
- Philip Larkin- Copy
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“ RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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