#swallow

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

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