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“For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.”

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Mario Cuomo was a distinguished American politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994. Renowned for his articulate speeches and progressive policies, he championed social justice and economic equality. Cuomo's governorship was marked by his efforts to reform the state's education system and his opposition to the death penalty. more

“Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.”

People Years Mind Age Happiness Youth Mets Blessing Highest Old Age Doomed Toil Envied Rugged

Author:Samuel Richardson

“Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.”

Friendship Love Is Fire Friends Comfortable Married Green Woods Proof Intense Smoke Flames Steady Matrimony Courtship Blazing

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.”

Want Kind Next Language Pleasure Failing Objects Mark Ill Delight Contrary Esteem This Life Manners Temper Shocking Flattery Hypocrite Doing Good Deserving Amiable Greatest Pleasures

Author:Samuel Richardson

“What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!”

Knows World Life Wish Half Mankind Human Nature Desirable One Half

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

“The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.”

Ifs Knows World Way Writing Wells Heart Enough Moments Stories Action Used Lying Reading Judging Decided Unfolding Undecided Minutiae

Author:Samuel Richardson

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