Quote by Alistair Cooke
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sa

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. – William Shakespeare

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. – Albert Barnes

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. – William Jennings Bryan

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