Defense
This snake is generally not aggressive, and if handled, will often flail about wildly to try to escape and release a foul-smelling musk from its cloaca.
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Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“He said, truly, that the reason why such greatly superior numbers quailed before him was, as one of his prisoners confessed, because they lacked a cause,—a kind of armor which he and his party never lacked. When the time came, few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defense of what they knew to be wrong; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)