"Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us."

-- Samuel Butler

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“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”
“Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.”
“Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.”
“It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.”
“My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.”
“There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.”
“Good ball players make good citizens.”
“The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.”

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