“Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.”
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Vairagyaśatakam 38 https://archive.org/stream/Vairagya.Satakam.of.Bhartrihari#page/n28/mode/1up <br class="br">Śatakatraya
“There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.”
— George Eliot, book Adam Bede
Adam Bede (1859)
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