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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reason
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Thomas Carlyle
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Cooking, Culinary
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Thomas Carlyle
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You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. – Christopher Isherwood

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. – Zen Saying

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