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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
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Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
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Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
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Every day, to earn my daily bread
I go to the market where lies are bought
Hopefully
I take up my place among the sellers.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Hollywood (1942) -
Freedom is the bread and the morning and the risen sun.
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Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
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Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
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I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
Source: Is nothing sacred? (1990)
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