Betty MacDonald Quotes

#1. There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

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#2. A grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

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#3. Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

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#4. Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

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#5. Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.

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#6. Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

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#7. _Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest

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#8. I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

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#9. Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

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#10. THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!

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#11. The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

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#12. Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

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