Variety is the spice of life
Changes and new experiences make life delightful.
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variety is the spice of life
variety is the spice of lifeDiversity makes life interesting, as in Jim dates a different girl every week—variety is the spice of life, he claims. This phrase comes from William Cowper's poem, “The Task” (1785): “Variety is the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
Variety is the spice of life
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variety is the spice of life
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Variety is the spice of life, after all!
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Variety is the spice of life — wait, that is overused as well.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
Variety is the spice of life, they say, and by that rule this series is basically sriracha.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
Variety is the spice of life and all that, right?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2015
A very wise man once said that "Variety is the spice of life," so why not take a hint, some of you would-be brickbat pitchers, and pipe down?
From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various
On the one hand, it affords more variety, and variety is the spice of life.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022
If variety is the spice of life, it was time to skirmish with the stones again!
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2017
Health, social care, community regeneration and education are the four main areas of activity, but if variety is the spice of life then CIC is very spicy indeed.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2013
As any biologist will testify, genetic variety is the spice of life, a necessary ingredient to the survival of a species.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say that variety is the spice of life.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
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