Victor Hugo Quotes, Cities Quotes, Water Quotes

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Water Quotes

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Hair Quotes , Water Quotes

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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