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- I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
- Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
- We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
- Amy Dacyczyn
- You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
- Oppression can only survive through silence.
- Carmen de Monteflores
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
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