Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal…

Ray Bradbury
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.76, Hamilton Books
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.76, Hamilton Books

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