"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

Food, Home, Body, Fire

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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

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"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."

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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

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"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

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"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance."

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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."

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"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."

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"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

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