Voltaire Quotes, Cooking Quotes, Certain Quotes

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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