"The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable."

-- William H. Coles

#Children Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #May Quotes

“I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.”
“I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.”
“Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ***** in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”

Source : "The Voice of the Scholar". Book by David Starr Jordan, 1903.
“I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.”
“Let students use technologies in the classroom.”
“When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you â€œbest of all.â€ It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]”
“To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world”

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