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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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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
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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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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest
— Thomas a Kempis
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
— Oscar Wilde
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Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
— Ali Smith
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
— Anna Quindlen
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
— Henry Ford
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Poetry makes nothing happen.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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