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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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