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When water stinks I break the dam,
In love I break it.
•Graves, Seven Days in New Crete (1949).

That there was a deluge once seems not to me so great a miracle as that there is not one always.
•Browne, Religio Medici (1643).

Said a witty misanthrope to me à propos of the iniquities of men, “It is only the uselessness of the first Deluge that preserves us from being visited by a second.”
•Chamfort, Maxims, Thoughts, Characters and Anecdotes (1796).

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