Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Food Quotes, Heart Quotes

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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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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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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