“ If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. ”
- W. Secker- Copy
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“ Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. ”
- Edgar Lee Masters- Copy
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“ Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes — love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself — and render them fully human… ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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