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• The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Husband, Fighting, Acceptance

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• For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

  Thomas More

  Rain, People, House

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Running, Rain, World

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• He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Thunderstorm, Shouting, Copper

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• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

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• It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sunday, Afternoon, Earth

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• 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

  Government, Years, Pockets

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

  Russel Honore

  People, Hot, Cold

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• In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

  Ethan Hawke

  Twenties, Paint, Stills

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• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Keys, Understanding

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Fictional character: Mr. Albert Osborne". "The Major and the Minor", www.imdb.com. September 16, 1942.

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• To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

  Jenson Button

  Morning, Race, Car

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sunday, Boston, Cities

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

  Diablo Cody

  Light, Gowns, Gremlins

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• When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

  Snoop Dogg

  Giving, Perfect, Clubs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dog, Baby

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• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  David Hasselhoff

  Paint, Site, Stills

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• My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

  Nikki Sixx

  Photography, Cameras, Use

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• My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

  Margaret Walker

  Strong, Memories, Grandmother

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Rain, Fire, Hot

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Peanuts, Pumpkin, Sucker

  "Fictional character: Linus van Pelt". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, November 15, 1957.

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