"Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes."

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Source : Eliza Acton (1868). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.594

Eliza Acton

#Food Quotes #Home Quotes #Skills Quotes

“I believe the day is done. Whether it's been the best day or the worst, it's over; let it go.”
“Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.28, Taylor & Francis
“Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.”
“To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.”
“That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.”
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”

Source : Friedrich List, William Notz (1931). “Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie und andere Beiträge der amerikanischen Zeit: 1825-1832”
“I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.”

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