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Water, Water, Everywhere
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● FeaturedFrom Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' this evocative line perfectly captures desperate thirst amidst abundance, yet it is often misremembered with a slight change in conjunction.
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What People Remember
Most people quote the line as 'Water, water, everywhere, BUT not a drop to drink.'
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What's Actually True
The actual line from the poem is 'Water, water, everywhere, NOR any drop to drink,' using the older and more poetic conjunction 'nor.'
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#quotes#literary#coleridge#poem#rhyme of ancient mariner
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