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Weasels

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Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. Weasels feed on small mammals and have from time to time been considered vermin because some species took poultry from farms or rabbits from commercial warrens. They do, on the other hand, eat large numbers of rodents. Their range spans Europe, North America, much of Asia and South America, and North Africa.

Quotes

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  • Night-wand’ring weasels shriek to see him there;
    They fright him, yet he still pursues his fear.
  • A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
    As you are toss’d with.
  • For once the eagle England being in prey,
    To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
    Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs.
    • William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), act 1, sc. 2 (Westmorland)
  • As quarrelous as the weasel.
    • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (c. 1611), act 3, sc. 4 (Pisanio)
  • “Weasels—and stoats—and foxes—and so on. They’re all right in a way—I’m very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there’s no denying it, and then—well, you can’t really trust them, and that’s the fact.”
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