As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek prop…

- Maryrose Wood

Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you …

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Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origi…

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Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off…

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All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

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If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

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Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

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One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in t…

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Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors of unspea…

- Maryrose Wood