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An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A... - MORE An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.

Anonymous

equality | men and women

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

life and living

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If women were umpiring none of this [rowdyism] would happen. Do you suppose any ball player in the country would step up to a good... - MORE If women were umpiring none of this [rowdyism] would happen. Do you suppose any ball player in the country would step up to a good-looking girl and say to her, "You color- blind, pickle-brained, cross-eyed idiot, if you don't stop throwing the soup into me I'll distribute your features all over you countenance!" Of course he wouldn't.

Amanda Clement

baseball

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Hail, hail, plump paunch, O the founder of taste
For fresh meats, or powdered, or pickle, or paste;... - MORE Hail, hail, plump paunch, O the founder of taste
For fresh meats, or powdered, or pickle, or paste;
Devourer of broiled, baked, roasted or sod,
And emptier of cups, be they even or odd;
All which have now made thee so wide i' the waist
As scarce with no pudding thou art to be laced;
But eating and drinking until thou dost nod,
Thou break'st all thy girdles, and break'st forth a god.

Ben Jonson

eating | drinking

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Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug

Sylvia Plath

comfort | home

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A plague o' these pickle herring! A plague o' these pickle herring!

Shakespeare

eating | excuses

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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette—throw "Roderick Random" into the... - MORE Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette—throw "Roderick Random" into the closet—put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there—put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

books

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