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Isabella Beeton has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that,…
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either…
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…
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Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of…
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A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the…
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The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health,…
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Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
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I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy…
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What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen…
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As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over…
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either…
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in…
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort…
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