"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."

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Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

Charles Lyell

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“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1711). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd”
“I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.”
“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.”
“My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.”

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