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“At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

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Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

— Robert Farrar Capon

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Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

— Robert Farrar Capon

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The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

— Robert Farrar Capon

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Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.

— Carlos Wilcox

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When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

— D. L. Moody

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What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time.

— Thomas Carlyle

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