One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
James Weldon Johnson
The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Sylvia T. Warner