Despite being surrounded by something, you cannot benefit from it.
This saying was coined by Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
It is often misquoted as "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink"
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The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
A story of love, betrayal, and motherhood set against the backdrop of World War II and the early 1960s.
The God of Endings
by Jacqueline Holland
A suspenseful debut that weaves a story of love, history and myth through the eyes of one immortal woman.
Harvard is the storehouse of knowledge because the freshmen bring so much in and the graduates take so little out.
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