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- Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
- For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.…
- Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
- There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is…
- It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely…
- These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were…
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