January 2011
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Then I being left alone to the high cogitations of loue, hauing passed ouer a long and tedious night without sleepe, through my barren fortune, and aduerse constellation, altogether vncomforted and sorrowfull, by means of my vntimely and not prosperous loue, weeping, I recounted from point to point, what a thing vnequall loue is: and how fitly one may loue that dooth not loue: and what defence...
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Anonymous, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) [full text]
Wikipedia: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Anonymous and Unknown
Apologies for the unplanned hiatus. The Project Gutenberg Project returns with a bang and perhaps the occasional whimper as we celebrate authors anonymous and/or unknown - some whose names are lost in the mists of time, others whose names were deliberately withheld due to the controversial nature of their works. Expect everything from the sublime to the profane; from the divine to the debauched.
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In one month a woman of ordinary intelligence, with the desire to learn, should be able to make perfectly, and serve attractively, enough simple dishes to supply the family table with sufficient variety, without troubling the mistress to plan and think for her.
- Mary Ronald, The Century Cook Book (1895) [full text]
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In one month a woman of ordinary intelligence, with the desire to learn, should be able to make perfectly, and serve attractively, enough simple dishes to supply the family table with sufficient variety, without troubling the mistress to plan and think for her.
- Mary Ronald, The Century Cook Book (1895) [full text]
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