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Here are all the wemic quotes I rotate on and off of the home page.

"The testator was cutt of a wemic and in daunger of death."
Fragmentary depositions, bishop's registry, Chester, 1574.

"Did you hear what he said? Us lions. That means him and me.
Us lions."

– C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs."
– Voltaire, Treatise on Tolerance, last paragraph, Chapter VI

"The dreadful Sagittary appals our numbers."
– Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 5

"Come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion."
– Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, scene I

"Now the hungry lion roars"
– Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, scene I

"I got cat class and I got cat style."
– Brian Setzer, Stray Cat Strut

"Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance."
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter XXXVII

" 'What are you about?' demanded Wemmick, with the utmost indignation. 'What do you come sniveling here for?' "
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter LI

"Wemmick came down to the door with me, and I again shook hands with him, and wished him joy. 'Thankee!' said Wemmick, rubbing his hands."
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter LV

"Now half appear'd the tawny lion."
– John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 463.

"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
– Elizabeth I of England, The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth

"My mind was racing like a cat-centaur."
– Steven Brust, Yendi, Chapter Fifteen

"I think that we were lions."
Walker Kong, Deliver Us From People, "Don't Give It Up"

"Yet she, singing upon her road, half lion, half child, is at peace."
– W.B. Yeats, Against Unworthy Praise

" 'Go tell your troubles to your Lion Man,' growled Orman."
– Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan And The Lion-Man

"We ought to send the Lion Man out ahead to clear the way for the rest of us."
– Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan And The Lion-Man

"And who are you, the proud lord said,
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat,
that's all the truth I know."

– George R.R. Martin, The Rains of Castamere, A Song of Ice and Fire

"In a coat of gold or a coat of red,
a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord,
as long and sharp as yours."

– George R.R. Martin, The Rains of Castamere, A Song of Ice and Fire

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