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«Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.»
«A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked»
«He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.»
«I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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