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Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first.

Source: In The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, by Robert Andrews, 1989
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Mar 6 1806-1861), English poet; She was noted for writing her own love story in verse.

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