Quote #61

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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  1. The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
  2. Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
  3. They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
  4. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in th…
  5. Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas…
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  7. That Kitty was capable of any deep grief was unbelievable. He had gradually grown to think of her as something unapproachable and callous. …
  8. An unread book is just a block of paper.

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