#fishes

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

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The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. ↗

— William Falconer

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— Pericles

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Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

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