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up to one's neck in



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That's a very different thing from sitting up to one's neck in a bog, and pretending it's all the same to you, when in fact it really is all the same.

From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance

One doesn’t need to stand up to one’s neck in experience, in a perfect muck of experience, in order to know things, in order to know they are there.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley




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