Quotes with starch

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

  ― E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.

  ― Bill Buford
  American author and journalist
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disconnected
• schoolroom
• deep-brown
• buckwheat
• properly
• slavic

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