Mary Virginia Terhune quotes
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“They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.”
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“Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.”
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“It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.”
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“Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.”
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“Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.”
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“Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.”
-- Mary Virginia Terhune
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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“There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.”
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“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”
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“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”
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Source : Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge
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Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.
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