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• Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cake, Rivers, Credit

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.7, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

  Michael Chabon

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

  Charles Bukowski

  he New York Quarterly: NYQ. Issues 35-38 p. 50, 1988.

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• In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine

  Anne Rice

  Twilight, Men, Feet

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• I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Obsessed, Finnick, Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.493, Scholastic UK

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• The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Home, Wine, Cities

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• In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Voice, Forgotten

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1146, Bantam

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Men, Sweat, God's Plan

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art is as useful as bread.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Art Is

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

  Peter Høeg

  Nice, Suicidal, Bad Day

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

  Tommy Bolt

  Eye, Golf, Knives

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• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, War, Corn

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

  Benjamin Cheever

  Inspirational, Friendship, Marriage

  Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.16, Rodale

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• We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Loneliness, Medicine

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

  Drake

  Mistake, Humble, Way

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• Burn bread every day boy, no toaster

  Drake

  Humble, Boys, Toasters

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• When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Water, Benefits, Our Actions

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Humble, Water, Suffering

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• The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

  Henry James

  Time, Sauce, Happy Endings

  Theatricals: 2nd Series "Note" (1895)

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• The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Today

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