"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."

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Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

Ludwig Bemelmans

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“There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.”
“I â€” I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time â€” here â€” and at this moment â€” and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.”
“You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.”
“Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.”
“Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.”

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“Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.”

Source : Cicely Mary Barker (1991). “A Treasury of Flower Fairies”, Warne
“For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.”
“Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.”

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