Top 5 Waverley Root Quotes

#1. Sweetly and subtly perfumed ... so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

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#2. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

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#3. The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

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#4. Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

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#5. The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

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