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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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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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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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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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