We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view o…

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We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. ✨ Joseph Conrad, Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape (2010). Last Essays, p.113, Cambridge University Press
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