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Benjamin Franklin quote: "It's better to swim in the sea below. Than to swing in the air..."

It's better to swim in the sea below. Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

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She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of theeffort to understand another language, the weariness of hearinghim, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood therefair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something ofhim, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed hereyes. David Herbert Lawrence
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