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‘Meat, ma’am, meat,’ replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. ‘You’ve over-fed him, ma’am. You’ve raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma’am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical
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“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
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“A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.”
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“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
― The Diaries of Adam and Eve
― The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”
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