Clear as a line drawn in the dirt.

Clear as a line drawn in the dirt.

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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Shined like sealskin.

Shined like sealskin.

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Quick as a rat.

Quick as a rat.

- Charles McCarry

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To argue with a man who has renounced the use…of reason…is like administering medicine to the dead.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use…of reason…is like administering medicine to the dead.

- Thomas Paine

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Shy as a sheep.

Shy as a sheep.

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

- James Addison

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Easy as swallowing a Hershey bar.

Easy as swallowing a Hershey bar.

- Tom DeHaven

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Sitting listening to the grass grow

Sitting listening to the grass grow

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Sang like a choirboy.

Sang like a choirboy.

- H. Block

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Calm as lakes that sleep.

Calm as lakes that sleep.

- William Wordsworth

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