"You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!"
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"You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that."
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"Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer."
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"When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry."
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"There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes."
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"A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes."
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"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry"
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric."
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"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
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"I would fain die a dry death."
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"At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak."
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"I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry."
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"There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter."
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"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
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"The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another."
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"In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts."
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"Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies."
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"She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress."
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"To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed."
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