“ The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ Perhaps you will regard it as a pardonable vanity which induces me here to mention that I have handed the kettle to Joanna Baillie to replenish her teapot in her home at Hampstead. ”
- Henry Glassford Bell- Copy
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“ I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and have been known to warm up some food in the microwave but cookery is definitely not one of my specialties. ”
- Michael J. Owen- Copy
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“ Little pot, do not call the kettle black until you have been in the fire as long as he has! ”
- Sequichie grandmother- Copy
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“ Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone. ”
- Brigham Young- Copy
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“ For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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