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Quote by Isabella Beeton

“there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.”

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Isabella Beeton, born on March 12, 1836, and died on February 6, 1865, was an English author renowned for her cookbooks. Her work 'Beeton's Book of Household Management' had a profound impact on British domestic cooking in the 19th century. more

“money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.”

Lying Order Wonder Changed Making Money Priests Exhausted Up And Down Wrecks Possessing

Book:The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

Source: The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

“the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.”

Way Ends Problem Sides Solve Best Way Knives Problem Solving Considering Riddle

Book:The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

Source: The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

“Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.”

Giving Mean Matter Moving Time Values Vehicle

Author:Ama Ata Aidoo

“Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.”

Ifs Knows Writing Young Found Wonder

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.”

Remains Lunch Bites Topics

Book:No Sweetness Here and Other Stories

Source: No Sweetness Here and Other Stories

“Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Sometimes Lasts Song Love Is He Man Fine Clothes Singing And Love Marrying

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.”

Language Growing Rivers Inevitable Flotsam

Author:Robert MacNeil

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