"One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf."

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Source : Sam Walter Foss, “The Calf-Path”

Sam Walter Foss

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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.”
“Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.”
“It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.”
“Let the Lord judge the criminals.”
“Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.”
“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.”
“Good marketers measure.”

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