"Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium."

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Source : William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191

William Alcott

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“Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2010). “Revenge of the Spellmans: Document #3”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.”
“The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13,”
“A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin
“One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.”
“I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.”
“Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.”

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