Famous quotes containing the words water and/or cannons:
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Nothing could be so beautiful, so smart, so well drilled as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, oboes, drums, cannons formed a harmony such as was never heard in hell.... Candide, trembling like a philosopher, hid himself as best he could during this heroic butchery.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
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