Good luck with your asparagus.

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“As quick as boiled asparagus!”

— Robert Graves

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The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

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Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.

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— Mario Batali

“What most enraptured me were the asparagus.”

— Marcel Proust

“Asparagus is the serpent of the vegetable world.”

— Jarod Kintz

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

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