"I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair."
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
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"Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer."
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"I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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"The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder."
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"Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man."
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""Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?"
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"You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!"."
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"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
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"A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."
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"In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones."
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"I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it."
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"As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys."
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"Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache."
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"A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!"
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"Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes"
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"Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid."
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