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  • Alexander Maclaren ''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Sandburg If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
    Source: On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Puzant Kevork Thomajan A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
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  • Abba Goold Woolson A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Edwards Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Calvin Trillin Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ramakrishna Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
    Ramakrishna
    Hindu mystic and religious leader (1836 - 1886)
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  • Benjamin Walker Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robertson Davies He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Loretta Lynn I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
    Loretta Lynn
     
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  • Woody Allen I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Ellen Glasgow I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Jack London I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Barbara Fialho I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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