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/ page 985 of 1205 /In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
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Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
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