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“No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.”

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B. C. Forbes

B. C. Forbes was an American journalist and publisher, born on May 14, 1880, and died on May 6, 1954. He is best known for founding Forbes magazine, which focuses on business, wealth, and investment. more

“This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?”

Men Matter Reason Asks Healthy Roots Vegetables What Matters Organisms Potatoes Peasants Vigorous Supplies Laborers Windy

Author:Denis Diderot

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.”

Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Strongest Allies Vegetables Stoves Eggplant

Author:Laurie Colwin

“In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.”

Church Food Cold Hot Tables Rose West South East Enormous Vegetables Quarters Dishes Centre Sauce Ham Pastries Artichokes Hot Sauce

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.”

Believe Wells Hard Beats Vegetables Lots Of Money Potatoes Baked Potatoes

Author:Laurie Colwin

“For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.”

Enough Vegetables Delicious Potatoes Soothing Baked Potatoes

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.”

Way Sound Like You Ought Vegetables Baskets Celery

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

People Ifs Waiting Difficult Cases Food Advantage Cooking Prepared Culinary Occupation Satisfying Vegetables Disposition Delicious Beans Ifs And Punctual Posse

Author:Andre Simon

“There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.”

Men Given Sports Eating Old Man Vegetables Beans

Book:A Book of Learned Nonsense

Source: A Book of Learned Nonsense

“Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.”

People Nations Natural Victim Disaster Vegetables Natural Disaster Soybeans

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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