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quenched

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of Quench

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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time. Edward Abbey

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Will cannot be quenched against its will. Dante Alighieri

My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fire is not quenched with fire. Italian Proverb

A hungry man thinks he won't be satiated, a thirsty man thinks he won't be quenched. Turkish Proverb

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