Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when… — John Cheever · Skopia

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Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

The Wapshot Chronicle · 1957

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Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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