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fire and water

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fire and water
Roman symbol of exile. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 451]
See : Banishment


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We arraign society if it do not give us, besides earth and fire and water, opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of veneration.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
Intenseness and duration are as ancient enemies as fire and water.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
But the perceptible surely exists before perception; for fire and water and such elements, out of which the animal is itself composed, exist before the animal is an animal at all, and before perception.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
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