"We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks."

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Source : 'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

#Book Quotes #Food Quotes #Men Quotes

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“On Facebook, Twitter, texting, e-mails, remember, it's a mode of communication, it is not communication. It's not real life. So step aside, make sure people see something other than the top of your head and live in real time, in the real world.”
“I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.”
“New York has always embraced me.”
“Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared”
“Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”
“He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.”
“To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.”

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