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“You find it so easy to be smart that you don’t bother to work very hard”
― Growing Up
― Growing Up
“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“To the USSR on Stalin's death: "Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them in His wisdom opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men, and women, and children, dwell in peace and comradeship.”
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“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”
― The Gastronomical Me
― The Gastronomical Me
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