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• Thoreau was no band-leader. The sound of all those different drummers makes it hell to organize a parade.
  -- Solomon Sho...
• The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
  -- Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1809-1885) -- The Brookside...
• Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 476...
• As I went under the new telegraph-wire, I heard it vibrating like a harp high overhead.
  It was as the sound of a far-off glorious life, a supernal life, which came down to us, and vibrated the lattice-work of this life of ours....
• Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.
  -- James Beattie (1735-1803) -- The Minstrel, Book i, Stanza 25...
• Help! I think I'm melting! This is all your fault, Bob!
• Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. - Thoreau.
• When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
  -- Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593) -- Faustu...
• Acid rain dissolves styrofoam.