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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."


"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."


"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."


"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."


"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
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