Quote#Friendship
What! Would you slap the Porcupine?
Quote byHilaire Belloc · 1870–1953
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: More Beasts for Worse Children (1897), "The Porcupine".
English (original)
What! Would you slap the Porcupine? Unhappy child — desist! Alas! That any friend of mine Should turn Tupto-philist.
— Hilaire Belloc
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