Cheap pleasures

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I miscalculated the starting amount of chickpeas and ended up with an absolutely COLOSSAL amount of humus. Just as well that I love the stuff and that eating it is never a chore. In fact, what with humus, chestnuts to be roasted, and fresh tomato for salad, this is going to be a very pleasant couple of food days.

There's an awful lot of pleasures to be enjoyed in life, even if you are poor.

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What bothers me is that all your quotations are from mediaeval Latin. My ear inevitably hears de novo as an Italianism - di nuovo. ex novo, on the other hand, is certainly classical, and represents the same usage as the standard definition of God's creative act as being ex nihilo, out of nothing.