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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot…
— Unknown Author
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes…
— Henry David Thoreau
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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we…
— Richard Hovey
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ...…
— Dwight L. Moody
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who…
— Charles Dickens
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Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves
— Carlton Palmer
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You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that…
— Jason Epstein
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Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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