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Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. - Bible, Song of Solomon (ch. II, v. 15) The fox has many tricks, the hedgehog only one. [Lat., Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Adagia Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en brer Fox, he lay low. - Joel Chandler Harris, Tar-Baby Story--Legends of the Old Plantation (ch. XII) As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (I, 18) Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. - Lysander, his remark on being told he resorted too much to craft, in Plutarch's "Life of Lyander"
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