You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1808-06-15) to Cassandra Austen
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First recorded use of the term "sponge-cake" in English.
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
The Freya Stark Story (1953)
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Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
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The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American author
Household Papers and Stories, Part 2, ch. 4 (1864)
Kissing don’t last: cookery do!
George Meredith (1828-1909) English novelist and poet
The Ordeal of Richard Feveral, ch. 24 (1859)
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