"There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating."

Culture, Music, Connection, Food, Friendship

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"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

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"Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French."

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"Without literature, life is hell."

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"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"We do not actually know other cultures, we only know our judgements."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say 'die' and that is what makes the Welsh so durable."

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"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."

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"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."

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"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."

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"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."

Literature

"Don't that make your bosom plim?"

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"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"

Reflection

"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

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"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."

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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

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