"I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the St Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames is liquid history."
— River Thames

January 1, 1970

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John Burns (date unknown), reported in Nigel Rees, ed. Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997); see also: Blackwood's Magazine (March 1921); The Daily Mail (25 January 1943)