7 Quotes by Waverley Root

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    The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

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    Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

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    The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

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    Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

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    The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino’s day.

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    The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

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