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“The influence of cookery on domestic happiness must be evident to all those who have had experience of the toils and troubles of married life.”
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“Architecture is both a matter of utility and a matter of art, its complexities exceeding our expectations for the merely useful or merely artistic.”
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“The argument culture urges us to approach the world — and the people in it — in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.”
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“Life's a rash, and then there's death and the itching's over.”
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“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.”
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“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ...”
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“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”
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“The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. ”