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August 13, 2009
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- George Eliot

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The fox is always helped by an expanding food base, and the fox performs the service of weeding out the sick and infirm, thus improving the average health of the farm. I don't know why chickens rail against foxes- over the long term, everyone gains!


Posted by Ostralion at August 14, 2009 07:43 AM

Actually, that's George Eliot, in her novel Felix Holt


Posted by Pedant at August 14, 2009 09:46 AM

In the context of the wild, Ostralion, sure. In the context of a land dominated by farms, the fox is vermin.


Posted by Jason Lee at August 14, 2009 11:50 AM

I think you'll find it was T S Eliot, not George.


Posted by Ian Bennett at August 14, 2009 12:46 PM

Ian

No. Wrongly attributed to TSE all over the web. It's George Eliot. I quote:

"Politics, of course," said Felix. "There's an election coming.... " etc.

Felix Holt by George Eliot. Page 60 of the Oxford World's Classics paperback edition 1998


Posted by Pedant at August 14, 2009 01:15 PM
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