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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
"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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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."
"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."
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