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«And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?»
Author: Edward Lear (Painter, Writer) | Keywords: duck, kangaroo
«Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.»
Author: Hans Christian Andersen (Author) | Keywords: duck, hatched, Only You, swan, Swans, The Swan, yard
«Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide»
Author: Hebrew Proverb | Keywords: creditor, creditors, duck, Vegetables
«Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath»
Author: Jacob Braude | Keywords: behave, calm, duck, like the devil, paddle, paddles, paddling, surface, underneath, unruffled
«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
Author: Michael Caine | Keywords: calm, calmed, calmer, calmest, calming, calms, dickens, duck, ducked, ducking, paddle, paddles, paddling, surface, surfaced, surfaces, underneath
«Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: duck, lily, pot, pouring, watering, watering pot, water lily, winged
«He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain»
Author: Douglas Jerrold (Humorist, Journalist, Playwright) | Keywords: benevolent, duck, held, merciful, mistaken, rain, shower, showered, showering, umbrella, umbrellas
«Happy as a duck in water»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: duck, ducked, ducking
«An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.»
Author: Thomas Merton | Keywords: author, chicken, chicken coop, co-op, coop, duck, monasteries, monastery, Trappist
«Hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: duck, hold fast
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