Quotations
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duck
«Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath»
Author: Jacob Braude
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behave, calm, duck, like the devil, paddle, paddles, paddling, surface, underneath, unruffled
«Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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duck, lily, pot, pouring, watering, watering pot, water lily, winged
«He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
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benevolent, duck, held, merciful, mistaken, rain, shower, showered, showering, umbrella, umbrellas
«An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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author, chicken, chicken coop, co-op, coop, duck, monasteries, monastery, Trappist