From Purely for Pleasure, by Margaret LaneDISGRACE
"The disgrace of the potato is a modern phenomenon, un-thought of a hundred years ago, when nearly everyone, man, wife and maiden aunt, was stout at forty."
From Mrs. Beaton and Mrs. Dickens
"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
From Purely for Pleasure, by Margaret Lane
I can;t tell you how many times that very thought has crossed my mind.
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