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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nellie Melba
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nellie Melba
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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Melba Colgrove
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One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba
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If it is to be, it's up to me.

Melba Moon
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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Alanis Morissette
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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Dr. Melba Colgrove
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...at least that would explain the weeping and moaning emanating from the woman’s bedroom at night. It woke her regularly and created an illusion which suggested disembodied spirits roamed the corridors. And if there was one thing Melba would not have it was disembodied spirits roaming the corridors...

Brian Kavanagh, Murder on the Island
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Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and historians will some day correlate these sporadic deprivations, to which he submits “for his own good,” with his public tantrums. If there is to be a world cataclysm, it will probably be set off by skim milk, Melba toast, and mineral oil on the salad.

A.J. Liebling
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But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers. I discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese and Melba Toast; that her vari-colored hair was somewhat self-induced. The same source made it evident that she received V-letters by the bale. They were torn into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and love.

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
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He could understand that the creatures, the fish and the owls, should feed and frolic at moon-rise, at moon-down and at south-moon-over, for these were all plain marks to go by, direct and visible. He marvelled, padding on bare feet past the slat-fence of the clearing, that the moon was so strong that when it lay the other side of the earth, the creatures felt it and stirred by the hour it struck. The moon was far away, unseen, and it had power to move them.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under
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