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“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”
Source : Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions
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“Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.”
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“[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.”
Source : William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”
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“In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.”
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“By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?”
Source : "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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“I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.”
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“Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?”
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“If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.”
Source : 1861 Said on welcoming his successor, Abraham Lincoln, to the White House.