"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."
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"Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them."
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"his snores sounded like ducks mating."
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"For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do."
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"I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else."
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"We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead."
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"Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement."
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"Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!"
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"The fox often offers the duck its pond."
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"Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks."
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"Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib."
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"It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers."
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"Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck"
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"confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
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"The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying."
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"[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe."
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"Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy."
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"For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?"
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"A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force."
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"Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY."
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