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“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
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“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
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“If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”
― Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”
― Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
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