“I’d like to wade through all the people named Wade in this city, and personally call all of them to congratulate them on their fabulous name.”
“City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.”
“Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.”
“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”
“Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter;”
“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".”