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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
Gerrit SmithAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 6, 1797
- Died: December 28, 1874
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The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour ofmeditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
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