“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
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“In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18
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