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Famous quotes containing the words recipe for coffee, plains, recipe and/or coffee:

    If the horseshoe sinks, then drink it.
    —Plains recipe for coffee.

    The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.
    Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

    A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)