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«I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.»
«Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;These, as successive generations bloom,New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.»
«Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.»
«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
«Mud is not one of the 4 food groups»
«My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?»
«I made all my generals out of mud.»
«Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: 'He who builds on the people builds on mud»
«If every man on Earth could take with him on death even a handful of mud from the Earth, there would have been nothing much left and mud would have been rationed at so many ounces per head!»
«Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.»

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