"Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”
“In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.”
“There is no ONE right way, no ONE sure-fire path to success, and it is usually the path itself that should be most cherished.”
“Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?”
“Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.”
“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
“I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.”
“HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.”

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