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Letter "P" » pond
«I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
eccentric, eccentrics, eel, Eels, electric, electric eel, goldfish, pond, ponds, set in, unpopular
«The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond»
«Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.»
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
«Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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boatman, boatmen, casts, How to fish, mingling, muddied, muddier, muddy, pond
«Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
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boarding, come in handy, drowning, handier, Handy, or else, pond, ponds, Save the Children, the pond, water dog
«They walk on the Lord's Path, and inspire others to walk on the Lord's Path as well. Bathing in a pool of holy water, they are washed clean of filth. But, by bathing in a stagnant pond, they are contaminated with even more filth.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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bathing, contaminate, contaminated, filth, holy water, pond, stagnant, walk-on, washed
«There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.»
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